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On Thursday 12 October 2006 03:18 AM, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray cobbled together some glyphs to say: Debarshi,
For all the reasoning, Linus Torvalds can be labelled as egoistic, if one went by the anti-FSF lobby. After all Linus named the kernel after himself, while Stallman never named GCC as 'Stallman Compiler Collection', Emacs as 'Stallman Editor', and the Free Software Movement as 'Stallman's Movement', and GNU as 'Stallman is Not Proprietary'. :-) But many GNU people do think Linux sounds cool, so why throw mud at GNU?
I am not trying to support Linus, but FYI, the the name `Linux' was termed by Ari Lemmke who was the sysadmin of ftp.helsinki.fi where `Linux' was hosted for the first time. Linus himself termed it `Freax' (Free + Freak + X from UNIX (TM)) and he too thought that the term `Linux' was a bit egoistic. That said, I'd like to affirm that Linus Torvalds _never_ supported the Free Software movement / philosophy. He himself admitted to using the GPL as a side-effect of using GNU tools. The first version of `Linux' was non-free which he later changed to GPL v2.
Regards, BG
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