Re: [ILUG-BOM] More controversy over the name GNU/Linux or Linux

On Wednesday 17 October 2001 06:06 pm, Philip S Tellis wrote:

An article on segfault confirms what many of us were worried about when Stallman started insisting that linux be called GNU/Linux.

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Wine/Perl/BSD/Gimp/Mesa/Python/Apache/Sendmail/Bind/Tcl/GNU/Linux - or WPBSMPASBTGL (pronounced 'Linux') for short. Red Hat, on the other hand, is considering changing the name of its Linux distribution to `ls -R /` (pronounced 'Lisa Slash').

Linux -WBS (pronounced Linux With Bull Shit) would be more appropriate.

Microsoft Corporation has decided to change the names of all future releases of its Windows line of operating

MacroSOB Nos (as in macro Son of a Bitch Non operating system)