On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 01:03:30PM +0530, Nagarjuna G. wrote:
though.) This is not the disagreement at all. The disagreement as I understand is because you see no compelling reason to associate a name with a concept. [You said: "I still see no compelling reasons to associate a name with a concept."]
Quoting Raju's mail at LIH :
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 10:43:10AM +0530, Raju Mathur wrote:
May we just have a separate thread on the Linux vs GNU/Linux topic instead of raising it each and every time someone uses the term Linux on the list? Please take it to LIG.
Dileep> No Raju, we have to educate the people why we should call Dileep> the OS GNU/Linux. I think LIH is the right place since Dileep> many people on LIH may not read LIG. I request all Dileep> members to read http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html
That is a very narrow view: you are saying that some subset of people prefer to call the OS GNU/Linux and are bent on enforcing the use of that name in every context. No one has to educate anyone else on anything. No one was handed a God-given right to educate the rest of the world. Some people prefer to call the OS Linux and some to call it GNU/Linux. I do not take exception to your calling the OS GNU/Linux; please give me and the rest of the list members the equivalent freedom to call it Linux and let the matter drop.
I could come out with dozens of arguments why the OS should NOT be called GNU/Linux, but I don't think that's important here. What IS important is the freedom of choice that each list member has to make up his or her own mind.
If your objective in being on the list is promoting the name GNU/Linux, I suggest you are in the wrong place. This is not the gnu-india-help mailing list. Nor is it the fsf-india-help mailing list or the gnu-linux-india-help mailing list. This is the linux-india-help mailing list, and it's here to help people with using Linux, irrespective of what they choose to call it.
Dileep> At least we don't receive mails like "I have installed Dileep> Linux 8.0 on my box"
No one in the world with half a clue would claim that Linux 8.0 exists. On the other hand, many clueful people (me included) do claim that an OS called Linux exists, and it does not need to be renamed at the whim of a handful of people. If you don't agree, point it out to me in private e-mail, which I will feel free to read or ignore. Please don't clutter up the list with your terminology issues.
Regards,
-- Raju
PS: There are such clueless people in LIH who say "Linux 8.0" for some distros ver 8.0