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[TheVeech]

On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 09:57 +0100, Jim Kissel wrote:
> 
> Toby Smithe wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 09:30 +0100, Jim Kissel wrote:
> >> Every time I get sucked into this debate, I reflect back that John Q. 
> >> Public/Joe Sixpack calls it Linux.  You may not like it, and probably 
> >> don't, but that's not going to change the general public's mind as to 
> >> it's proper name.
> >>
> >> "...but we should educate the public to the error of their ways...." and 
> >> perhaps we should, but remember that it is a difficult job to teach a 
> >> pig to sing, and it annoys the pig.
> > 
> > Oh yes, and I also just call it Linux. Or Ubuntu.
> > 
> So do I, but some people at the local LUG have taken exception to it. 
> Even worse, I once commented to the effect that Ubuntu was the 
> same/similar to Debian.  I got my head handed to me on a platter for 
> that one, but oddly enough Ian Murdock thinks that Ubuntu-Debian are the 
>   same.  "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian"  Ian Murdock, Linux Format, 
> LXF92 May 2007.

I've lost count of the amount of ill-informed statements that cry
freedom while, on further analysis, unwittingly act against it.

If someone like Stallman was someone I passionately disagreed with, I'd
probably characterise him in my own mind as a jerk.  At times he behaves
like a spoilt brat.  But he represents some sort of counterweight
against many of the 'common sense' notions that fly around at times.

Whether it's called GNU/Linux or Linux isn't important to me.  What is,
is that people are at least aware of why his contributions are often so
important.