On 10/10/2017 05:55 PM, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > On 10/10/17 01:46, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> With respect to specific distros, we ought use the name the distro >> prefers. The Fedora Project releases Fedora, not Fedora GNU/Linux. The >> Debian guys release Debian GNU/Linux, not Debian Linux. The people who >> set up these distros have given their distros names, and it seems >> appropriate to use the names properly. It is as inappropriate to refer >> to Debian Linux as it is to refer to Fedora GNU/Linux: in both cases >> that's rejecting the community's right to name their distro what they wish. > > To me it appears hypocritical that you are speaking of “respecting > community rights” where the aforesaid communities (more precisely, the > founding developers who are the ones that actually choose the name of > the distribution, not the later community) have stepped over the right > of the GNU project to be given proper credit. > > Recall that the most important contribution of the GNU project is not > the software packages, but starting the free software movement and > developing the most important licenses. GNU/Linux distributions are only > possible because of free software ideology, even though many such would > hate to acknowledge this.
So we should call FreeBSD “GNU/FreeBSD” instead? Sorry, I could not resist.
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