On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Richard Stallman wrote: > Whether we agree that demanding renaming of software in order to > emphasize credit is justified is unclear to me. > > The system's name has been GNU ever since we started it 15 years ago. > I think it was uncool for people to rename it to "Linux", > so I am suggesting "GNU/Linux" as a compromise. Dammit, Richard, that's nonsense and you know it. Linux is not what you envisioned 15 years ago. It's not what you worked toward, not what you designed, not what you wanted and, most important, it's not what you built! All of the guts of the OS are contrary to the thing that the FSF has been working toward. The kernel is an entirely different design from what the FSF is trying to accomplish. Your persistence in trying to co-opt what isn't yours, to grab credit for something you didn't do, is the very height of bad manners. You've created a bunch of tools -- sure, sure, vital ones, we know and nobody's denying it -- that can be compiled and used under just about any OS under the sun. What possible rationale can you give for choosing Linux out of all of them and trying to call it GNU? A sane rationale, I mean. Not the tripe you've been yammering on about for lo these too many years. -- Pete Schaeffer Why oh why didn't I take the _blue_ pill?
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