> 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.
That has technical reasons also. That is the name of the operating system, which is getting misused/misinterpreted everywhere. And it is wide spread also. So I wanted people to realize what they are doing and the above are one of the reasons (easy to understand by every one) why we want to correct that mistake. There are other reasons also. If you have used or worked in GNU, you would have already know where the "Linux" part exists in it. GNU is the name of the operating system, which is the truth. I think you might be talking about the Free Software Movement, which involves politics also. You are trying to combine two entities and saying it as one. "Freedom" doesn't mean that you have the freedom to do anything and modify itself (the Name and the License). The GNU/GPL gives the user certain (fixed number of) freedoms. If you call it "Advantage" or "Benefit" there is no confusion. _______________________________________________ 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]
