В Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:51:34 +0000, Duncan написа: > Further, I've made it widely known that in general I couldn't > legally run slaveryware
It is very good that you have set these principles for yourself. However, saying GNU/Linux is a way to remind others about the goals the GNU system set out to solve; the name "Linux" simply does not do that since it is associated with a completely different way of thinking. > Yet I don't see the big deal about GNU/Linux, either. Don't you agree with the reasons at http://gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html? > And no, I'm /not/ going to start calling my particular subset of > what my distribution makes available > Gentoo/~amd64/KDE/X.org/GNU/Linux! You don't have to. http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#many > As I said earlier, ask any linguist, There is an easy solution if "GNU/Linux" is so hard to pronounce -- say just "GNU". I often do that when I refer to all GNU variants in general (GNU/Linux, GNU/kFreeBSD, GNU/Hurd). Besides, "GNU/Linux" is not hard to say and write in the languages I know. > or PR/branding person for that matter. It is not a matter of PR, it's a matter of doing the right thing. I trust that the free software supporters are not going to resort to PR reasoning, or argumentum ad populum. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
