On 10/11/06, jtd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
IMO it was the fsf and it's core members who understood the dangers of sidelining the core political nessage and worked resolutely towards that goal. Inspite of naive arguments to the contrary by tech luminairs who while riding piggy back on the GNU system and enjoying the fresh air completely fail to see the whale they are riding on and the shark infested waters.
<snip> It is these OTHER important things - not technical but political - for
which a GNU/Linux distro should be labeled as such. The technical semantics of chicken, egg, dna and other fanciful things can resolve themselves at everbody's leasure. The political battle cannot.
Hats off to jtd for his replies in this thread. Could not agree more with him on each point. If the average end user is ignorant about the freedom, then we should spread the awareness before it is too late. Linus was proved wrong in the Bitkeeper case. He *might* be wrong in not adopting GPLv3 as well. Regards Aseem -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
