Hello Jos, The following line is taken from your website at :http://joscollin.org
If you call the system "the Linux System" then you are giving the credit > to Linus Torvalds, who did very less. So I strongly recommend everyone to > call the system the GNU Operating System. Like a lot of other people, your reasons for calling it as GNU/Linux clearly appears to be political rather than philosophical. And I don't know if you realise, brother, but the politics is killing your philosophy. Regards, Deepu On 6 February 2012 03:41, Jos Collin <[email protected]> wrote: > > without some people being practical). An interesting anecdote of which > was > > the BIOS issue (BIOS firmware being non-free and proprietary), if any of > > you remember the same. RMS uses "semi"-laptop because there are no > > completely free/open source laptop (including BIOS) available on market. > > How many of us are ready to do something like that, does it even make > sense > > for each of us to do that. > > Lemote. > > RMS uses Lemote. > http://www.ilug-cochin.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/10.jpg > > > Now "that"(freedom in software) is one of the > > things I care about. There are many other things that I care about, like > > giving basic education for kids, to inspire some of them follow research > > etc and many others outside education, like freedom of speech etc. Now > > when I draw the line towards being over idealistic in one specific > > directions, I have to compromise on others or not be successful in any of > > them. So at the end of the day, it is a personal choice. Now using the > > term "GNU/Linux" : I tend to use GNU/Linux whenever possible but don't > try > > to be a word-nazi. If I feel that, the person don't know about free > > software, I try to inspire them to it and let them to choose. > > But the personal choice should not be wrong like "Linux Operating System". > > > It is kind of a waste of all our time to repeat the > > same thing over and again, > > You will feel that it is a waste, if you don't recognize the value of > freedom. I understand > that you are explaining your convenience and not freedom. > > > so that we can > > spent the remaining time in contributing effectively to make the free > > software community stronger. Let us all contribute in code, design or > > something creative than just thru arguments. The code is mightier than > the > > word. ;) > > You have to do coding. But that's a secondary thing, which has lesser > importance > compared to the Free Software movement. > > _______________________________________________ > Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List > http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ > http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org > #[email protected] >
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