On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 10:08:14PM +0800, Pablo Manalastas wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Aug 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Does this look like uuencoded mime enclosure? I'm sorry but neither
> I nor my mailer (pine) can decipher what this is.
Lurker can't figure it out, either. Mutt reports it as text/plain,
base64, iso-8859-1. I wonder what's up. It seems quite malformed,
though. Both in the file in my Maildir as well as in the link to the raw
message from Lurker. I'm attaching a decrypted copy for everyone's
benefit (indented and wrapped, but otherwise unedited).
--> Jijo
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Pablo Manalastas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> It rankles me how people like to make jokes about RMS. It's like
>> making jokes about freedom.
>
>I am sorry if my original post hurt some people in this list, but
>there is nothing in that post that "makes a joke" about RMS or even
>hints at making a joke about RMS. I'm all respect for the guy and
>I believe that his gcc is the greatest c/c++ compiler in the world
>-- I use it all the time and I please don't take my post as an act
>of ingratitude to him.
Nah, I wasn't really hurt. Masama lang siguro ang gising, that's
why I reacted defensively.
>
>What I do not understand is his over-insistence on the name
>GNU/Linux for the operating system that we all love. There's a lot
>of BSD code in Linux; Linux is almost always bundled with sendmail,
>apache, xfree86, perl, mozilla, kde, gnome, etc. But these
>entities don't insist that we call Linux by the name
>"GNU-BSD-Apache-Xfree-Perl-KDE-Etc-Linux". Is not the simple name
>"Linux" enough?
>
>No disrespect for RMS. Just asking.
Dido has answered this question sufficiently, I think (take a look
also at faifzilla.org). And to add my personal opinion (again), I
think it's okay to call it just "Linux" among "ourselves"
(developers, or at least those who compile from source; since anyone
who does a ./configure quickly becomes aware of GNU, especially if
problems crop up :-), but for press releases and other stuff meant
for the un-initiated public "GNU/Linux" is a better term. In
fairness to GNU (this following the technical argument that the
Linux kernel plus glibc/gcc/GNU-utils make up the core of the OS)
and also because the GNU manifesto is a powerful attraction to
certain kinds of people. Plus, people better be aware of licensing
issues quick, and no better way to do this than acquainting them
with the GPL. I mean, everytime I hear/read serious talk about
"intellectual property" I shudder in fear (and sometimes mirth). As
for the naming of distro's, I don't have an opinion on that, but
"Debian GNU/Linux" sounds coolest and techie-est, me thinks.
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