On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Raj Kiran Grandhi shared this with us all:
>--} Charlie wrote:
>--} > Just a general off topic query.
>--} >
>--} > I was recently informed that my signature had a problem rendering
> correctly on --} > someone's mailer - deliniter incorrect - and was told
> that my signature "Linux --} > Debian" should read "Debian GNU/Linux"
> because: "considering that the majority --} > of it is provided by GNU."
>--} >
>--} > I have added GNU - but it may be silly? My own prejudice was that
> Linux was --} > first so should be first, that without it there would be no
> Debian? Or as I --} > asked my correspondent, who never replied, would
> there have been an OpenBSD --} > Debian or something like that? Then should
> GNU go before Debian or after? Or --} > not be there at all? Even if most
> comes from GNU Debian is the one that --} > creates it so?
>--} >
>--} > I'm just interested and imagine there will not be a definitive answer
> to this --} > at all.
>--} >
>--} > Be well,
>--} > Charlie
>--}
>--} http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy
>--}
>--} --
>--}
>--} If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
>--} -- Albert Einstein
Thank you for the link.
Charlie
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