On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 01:59:40AM -0600, Paul Sack wrote:

> SIGFree, on face, sounds at best like a FreeBSD SIG, which it's not.
 
alt.fan.malloc

> According to the SIGFree web page:
>    The purpose of the change is to avoid the idea that a GNU/Linux system
>    is called a Linux system.

as a founding member of siglinux and a continuing user and advocate of linux,
i'm somewhat confused about the new name.  i don't think it's idiotic, i just
don't get what made 'siglinux' suddenly inappropriate.

it's still about linux, eh?

i'm all for new SIG's that address new topics...i halfway suspect there should
be a sigunix for people who just don't care (myself included--i've stopped
fighting the good fight and now champion unix uber alles, mostly because the
obvious enemy, if one must choose to fight someone, is microsoft & closed
standards), but linux is still linux and not freebsd, or solaris, or
freeunix, or whatever.

and, for those who keep track, linux is still what i use and advocate.

i've been gone awhile and the change in listserv names brought this to my
attention.  i'll stick around for awhile if we're still talking about unix
and not politics.

whatever people are interested in makes a SIG, in the end.

peace.

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