Dear Gna! Administrator,
I'm impressed by your determination on this matter. I must say that i
hadn't realized how people closely involved in the GNU community, like
you seem to be, could be attached so deeply to issues which wrongly look
like details to others.
I have read your constitution and noticed your 4th article
<https://gna.org/about/#art4>.
Consequently, we will meet your request.
Note that the original author (Alexandre Passant) was much less
stubborned than me...
Updated files can be retrieved at the previously given url.
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Pascal
Mathieu Roy wrote:
Follow-up Comment #2, task #1338 (project admin):
Pascal replied in
<https://mail.gna.org/public/register/2005-03/msg00005.html>
"On the reference to Linux in the place of GNU/Linux, i have not discuss the
matter with the original author (Alexandre Passant) but i guess that he will
agree with me on the following.
One of our goal in this document will be to explain the differences between
Linux and GNU/Linux. However this document is intended to beginners, and i
think that another title would be too obscure to them. The better way to
explain complex things is to make then as clear as possible. The complexity
won't come without explainations first. One of the first chapter is on the GNU
Project, consequently from there and throughout the rest of paper we will
refer only to GNU/Linux when speaking of the OS."
I'm afraid that cannot satisfies us. Our stance is stated at
<https://gna.org/about/#art3> and we stick to it quite rigidly.
It is good that you refer only to GNU/Linux when speaking of the OS inside the
document, but title do matters, we cannot disregard such aspect. We believe
important to call the system GNU/Linux, not Linux, and to promote usage of
such term, one need to be very consistent, in order to keep his message
understandable.
From my experience, it's not a big deal to say GNU/Linux to people that have
no clue what GNU is and barely know what Linux is. They will just notice you
say GNU/Linux and will take it as it come, without even bothering asking why.
What matters is the fact that GNU/Linux is a name that get familiar to them,
just like Linux, even if it does not at all implies deep understanding of what
it means.
And in the end, it is confusing to jump to free software doctrine while
describing "linux" while saying GNU/Linux just open the door.
What do you think?
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