just curious: why no mention of GNU?

[Myles Green]

What does any of this have to do with the development of Ubuntu ?? As
has been asked before /please/ take this thread and... move it to
sounder! Or at least mark the thread as <OT> in the subject as I have
done so people can filter it out if the desire.

Thanks!

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:51:27 -0400
Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy <nigde at mitechki.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 13:42 +0200, Marco Gerards wrote:
> > Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy <nigde at mitechki.net> writes:
> > 
> > > So, basically, since GNU project is the proud owner of the
> > > implementation of libc and a few utilities used by most linux
> > > distributions, they feel that they have enough leverage to bully
> > > people into inserting their name into any project they desire.
> > 
> > A few utilities is really an understatement.  Some people consider
> > linux the core of the system, fine, Linux gets a got of credit when
> > you say GNU/Linux.  But, at least IMO, GNU is the most important
> > part
> > of my system.  For example libc, gnome, emacs, coreutils, gcc, etc
> > are
> > all GNU projects.  And it is not about any project they desire, they
> > are asking to be respected because GNU software is used in GNU/Linux
> > distributions.  Please read the GPL FAQ for all details about why
> > they
> > are asking this.
> 
> Right, this is what I call monopolistic intimidation. And once you win
> this battle what is gonna be the next one? That any software compiled
> using gcc should have a GNU in its name? Or any software linked
> against
> LGPL library? Or any software whose files I listed using GNU/ls?
> 
> 
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