On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 12:12:56AM +0800, Andy Sy wrote: >> You probably think that your >> rural countryment should "get out of the way of progress", move to the >> cities, and become slum-dwellers so the big multi-nationals can rape >> your land? All of this is implied in your denigration of "the left". > >Wow. Now THAT'S baseless extrapolation.
Not baseless at all. That's exactly what right-wing capitalists have been doing to your country for decades. >What the heck, "Debian GNU" does have a nice ring to it - >short and nice. Why not just drop the Linux word? (You do In my own personal use, I do. Getting a concensus among 600 developers to change the name to "Debian GNU with Linux" from "Debian GNU/Linux" just takes more effort than I am prepared to spend right now. >take your own arguments about OS naming seriously, don't you?) Assuming the antecedent, typical flaw in logic. You assumed what my answer would be, and proceeded on that basis to paint me as a hypocrite, but your feeble basis for that assumption was wrong. >Linus probably wouldn't raise half the ruckus RMS did (out >of courtesy you should at least make it clear though that RMS never tried to distract people from the importance of Freedom either. What is your statement apropos of? >you're doing it as a 'branding' move and not out of disrespect >or spite). Why "bend over backwards" when no one seems to >be insisting on such? Why all the need for "extreme politeness"? Why not? Politeness is the grease that makes society sociable. Only an anti-social person could wonder why someone bothered to be polite. >If you are referring to Bill Hayden's efforts, then that >project is called Cosmoe (http://www.cosmoe.com/). There >is NO SUCH THING as "Atheos/Linux". How in the world did You are attacking the details, but not the heart of my argument. I notice you are silent on the matter of NEXTSTEP/Mach; and my example of AtheOS corrects just as easily to Cosmoe/Linux. What exactly are you trying to say? That babies belong in the same place that bathwater goes? Jonathan -- Geek House Productions, Ltd. Providing Unix & Internet Contracting and Consulting, QA Testing, Technical Documentation, Systems Design & Implementation, General Programming, E-commerce, Web & Mail Services since 1998 Phone: 604-435-1205 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webpage: http://reactor-core.org Address: 2459 E 41st Ave, Vancouver, BC V5R2W2
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