On Saturday 30 December 2006 23:14, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
On 12/30/06, jtd <jtd(a)mtnl.net.in> wrote:
irrelevant. You can use the gnu tools, as also
tons of other FOSS
stuff without a linux kernel. See my earlier mail. Everyone can
decide which is more important based on their own logic.
Exactly, and on the same lines everyone can decide what they want
to name their distribution. I understand that GNU doesn't force
anyone, but seems like they would probably withdraw from everything
that doesn't have the word GNU.
Also pointed out in an earlier mail two licences approved by OSI which
is most certainly not free. U can't take parts of the source under
those licences and use it somewhere else. So anyone who says open
source == freesoftware is talking crap.
Once u are aware of the fact - which newbies are certainl not - u may
call your distro whatever u fancy. If u tell a newbie opensource==
freesoftware you are now deliberately misleading them. And why would
one do such a thing - beats me.
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Rgds
JTD