RMS, Free software and the Ubuntu CDs

[Alexander Skwar]

Michael T. Richter wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-02-07 at 10:00 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
>> >  I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that 
>> > GNU doesn't mean a damn in terms of Linux's sudden surge on the desktop 
>> > without X.
> 
>> On the desktop. That might be right. But Linux still is more important
>> on servers. And one thing that's common between desktops and servers
>> is, that they use the GNU userland.
> 
> Remind me: did Unca Bill get filthy rich selling servers or selling to 
> the desktop?

And what about Uncle Scott from Sun?

>> > Further, just on the side of salesmanship: a short, easily-pronounced 
>> > name -- "Linux" in this case -- is far superior to a clumsy expression 
>> > like "Guh-new plus Linux" or "Guh-new slash Linux".
> 
>> Hä? I always pronunce "GNU/Linux" as "gnu linux". I omit the slash. And
>> "gnu" isn't such a hard word...
> 
> It's an ugly word spoken in English.  It sounds like a bodily function, 
> not a word describing something desirable.  (Many UNIX commands share 
> this trait: awk, grep, fsck, sed, etc.)  Guh-new.  Ugly.  Clumsy.  
> Just... no.

What are you talking about? All those words are easily pronunceable.
I don't get you.

> Linux, in comparison, positively flows from the tongue.

?

So does gnu linux. I don't get you.

>  Juxtaposing 
> "Guh-new"

Hä? gnu. Not guh-new. Gnu. Like the animal.

> with Linux only serves to heighten what a dreadful name GNU 
> had always been.

?

What are you talking about? Gnu isn't hard to pronunce in any
way. I don't understand what you're writing.

>> Is my pronuniciation wrong? And what's that "GNU+Linux"? I've never heard
>> that before. Where was this term used first?
> 
> I first heard it from RMS himself when he was babbling about how 
> important it was that we call it "Guh-new slash Linux" or "Guh-new plus 

What's that "guh-new" thing you keep talking about? Gnu? Why don't
you simply say so?

>> > --
>> Could you please use a proper signature delimiter of "-- "? 
> 
> Ummmm....  What?  Please use "--" instead of... "--"?!

No. Please use "-- " instead of "--". As I wrote. And as it
can be found on umpteenth places on the net. dashdashspace

And also please no HTML.

Alexander Skwar
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