On 06/02/2010 07:57 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> the link has relevance and interest to the list - it has been posted by many 
> people on most of the LUG lists in the country. What I took exception to is 
> the idea that by constantly renaming things, one can change their nature. Let 
> us face facts - the GNU project did not write the linux kernel, and no amount 
> of name changing is going to change that fact.
>   

I am not a fan of the name but that's a weak argument IMO

http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html

There is a reason FSF calls the combination GNU/Linux rather than GNU
Linux.    My argument is there is no GNU/Linux operating system either. 
We have distributions which are essentially Linux based operating
systems that share source code and they have their own names. 

Rahul


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