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Forwarded mail from Mr. Abhijeet.

Linux Thane 2006 clashes with Foss.in 2006. Someone had better inform Mr. Abhijeet if he isn't on this list.

Philip

On Tuesday 03 October 2006 14:10, Nagarjuna G. wrote:

On 10/1/06, Anurag anurag@gnuer.org wrote:

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Forwarded mail from Mr. Abhijeet.

This event is propogating wrong history. I had about a month back written to them, they did not correct. May be they need more pressure from the community to accept the correction. This is what their site says: " Linux is a free Unix-type operating system originally created by Linus Torvalds, at the University of Helsinki in Finland (ComputerScience), with the assistance of developers around the world.Developed under the GNU General Public License, the source code for Linux is freely available to everyone." The above lines were taken from www.linux.org, which is also incorrect.

Nagarjuna

Now, I'm doing the wrong by assuming about the wrongness of that quoted text above, but most probably my assumption is correct..

I have a suggestion. FSF should stop being so hypocritic and start using a term like FOSS/Linux that signifies Freedom. By using GNU/Linux, you're stealing the credit from the likes of Xorg and KDE. If you're really concerned about freedom, start highlighting freedom, not your own name.

As for what Mr. Nagarjuna has quoted above, the only thing wrong there is that Linux is a kernel, not the entire OS. Rest is correct methinks.

Correct me if I'm wrong of course. But that applies only for the third para of my reply. The second para is my opinion.

Oh and before anyone starts a flame war, I am a fan of the GNU philosophy. But that doesn't mean that I have to like or agree with everything that FSF or RMS say or do.