On 6/28/05, Krishna Pagadala krishnaact@yahoo.com wrote:
Regarding renaming xmms to linamp, again do we want to take permission from the powers that be every time? Is it a world worth striving for? living in?
I strongly second that. Just check out Linspire and see how many things they have just renamed!
I think Sarath has all the rights to do what he has done.
I can say though he has done some wrong, in his particular case at least, we should have all the humanity in us to identify his true intent, softly point his mistakes, and encourage him in the right direction.
And regarding the nonsense of piracy, please read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Piracy -Krishna
Geez! never occured to me.. nice revealing fact! ( I also just heard the same thing on what my friends presented me and called "RMS Video". I guess they meant "The GNU Philosophy Video" by Richard M Stallman)