Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 02:23:46PM +0000, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > I'd like to see the FSF and all its advocates stop their effort at > > retronaming Linux as GNU+Linux > > Retronaming? Are you kidding? Next you'll be saying that Free Software > is an attempt to retroname the Open Source movement. Revisionists like > Linus and ESR do real damage to the Free Software movement, we need to > work hard to undo thier harmful work.
Arguably, calling the operating system GNU+Linux or Linux+GNU, while more accurate, is retronaming in a way. I'm not sure that Open Source is a revision of Free Software - it's more a marketing campaign that then became a tail that tries to wag the dog, encouraged by people with various motives and interests, mostly in taking control. Anyway, please finish this subthread (there will be a slight delay on posts to it from now on) and direct the discussion towards the "Growing FSFE" one. We all know the views on GNU+Linux - unless you've a killer unknown argument or link, please don't take the list around in circles. Thanks, -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html tel:+44-844-4437-237 - Webmaster-developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, consumer and workers co-operative member http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ - Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
