On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> It rankles me how people like to make jokes about RMS. 
> It's like making jokes about freedom.

I am sorry if my original post hurt some people in this list,
but there is nothing in that post that "makes a joke" about
RMS or even hints at making a joke about RMS.  I'm all respect for
the guy and I believe that his gcc is the greatest c/c++ compiler
in the world -- I use it all the time and I please don't take my
post as an act of ingratitude to him.

What I do not understand is his over-insistence on the name
GNU/Linux for the operating system that we all love. There's a lot
of BSD code in Linux; Linux is almost always bundled with sendmail,
apache, xfree86, perl, mozilla, kde, gnome, etc.  But these entities 
don't insist that we call Linux by the name 
"GNU-BSD-Apache-Xfree-Perl-KDE-Etc-Linux".  Is not the simple name 
"Linux" enough?

No disrespect for RMS.  Just asking.

PMana

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