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On Sun, 2006-02-07 at 09:42 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 08:33 +0800, Michael T. Richter wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Oh, don't get me wrong. I think that GNU is very important. This</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> doesn't change my impression that RMS is being a childish git when he</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> insists of having everybody call it GNU+Linux without bothering to</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> acknowledge any of the other vital contributions to a usable system.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> If he wants to be consistent, he needs to acknowledge X at the very</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> least, or he can just rest satisfied in the knowledge that his</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> brainchild, GNU, is responsible for the most popular free operating</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> system in the world without whinging about not getting the credit for</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> it.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">The funny part of it all is that he and his project *does* get the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">credit, it's just not in the name. Most folk running a Linux OS know</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Linus and RMS and their respective roles.</FONT>
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I know. (I said as much later. <IMG SRC="cid:1151826706.22782.59.camel@localhost.localdomain" ALIGN="middle" ALT=";)" BORDER="0"> ) The tragic irony of the situation is that RMS is quite justly viewed as the father of free software. Without him we'd not have anything like it for years more to come. Yet now he seems to be more a divisive force slowing down the free software scene instead of building it further up.<BR>
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