That logic, if followed to its end, means Fedora is giving no credit to GNU
or Linux. If a high-level application needed to cite all its components in
its name, that could be inconvenient.

I wouldn't call ArchLinux's name an error personally but hey :)


On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:02 PM, Richard Stallman <r...@gnu.org> wrote:

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>     This mean, there is an ArchLinux system, which is a GNU/Linux
>     system, not only Linux system, but the name is still ArchLinux.
>
> Their distro is a version of the GNU/Linux system.  By calling their
> distro "ArchLinux", they are (in effect) changing the name of our
> system, calling it "Linux".
>
> So they have no right to complain if we correct their error
> and call their distro "Arch GNU/Linux".
>
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