-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 12 October 2006 03:18 AM, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray cobbled together some glyphs to say: Debarshi, > For all the reasoning, Linus Torvalds can be labelled as egoistic, if > one went by the anti-FSF lobby. After all Linus named the kernel after > himself, while Stallman never named GCC as 'Stallman Compiler > Collection', Emacs as 'Stallman Editor', and the Free Software > Movement as 'Stallman's Movement', and GNU as 'Stallman is Not > Proprietary'. :-) But many GNU people do think Linux sounds cool, so > why throw mud at GNU?
I am not trying to support Linus, but FYI, the the name `Linux' was termed by Ari Lemmke who was the sysadmin of ftp.helsinki.fi where `Linux' was hosted for the first time. Linus himself termed it `Freax' (Free + Freak + X from UNIX (TM)) and he too thought that the term `Linux' was a bit egoistic. That said, I'd like to affirm that Linus Torvalds _never_ supported the Free Software movement / philosophy. He himself admitted to using the GPL as a side-effect of using GNU tools. The first version of `Linux' was non-free which he later changed to GPL v2. Regards, BG - -- Baishampayan Ghose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ubuntu -- Linux for Human Beings http://www.ubuntu.com/ 1024D/86361B74 BB2C E244 15AD 05C5 523A 90E7 4249 3494 8636 1B74 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFLW8iQkk0lIY2G3QRAsffAKCRE9zdykvLEU1GqGc0y2gJ88habgCgkPDN 8VpSIpP2wXqyriQaLIgxDKc= =lU7H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
