On 17 Jun 2007, at 7:37 AM, Eugene Teo wrote:

Guess it's time for you to read some history :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy


Thanks for that. I'd long forgotten about RMS *objecting* to the original BSD license requiring that credit be given to UC Berkeley.

If we really want to be picky about not leaving out any contributors to the components of a Linux distro then perhaps we should call it:

MIT/BSD/Apache/KDE/Mozilla/Sun/(etcetera, ad infinitum)/GNU/Linux    ;)

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