On 08/01/2008, 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.
do you genuinely believe that Linus is doing damage? I can't think of any instances of his damage doing myself, and to be frank the FSF sponsoring Adobe's Flash format in their pure Flash GPLFlash/Gnash GNU project (http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/) seems far more worthy of a damage claim since they are unwilling to aim for anything better for web-multimedia. Will FSF be sponsoring a GPL_ActiveX GNU project next? or GNU_Multimedia which can only decode WMV files? ...IMHO we need to keep things in perspective (FS vs Open Source), and not squabble with people who are 90% thinking the same because they don't agree with us on 10%. Jon _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
