Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux | Date | Sat, 19 Dec 1998 19:48:54 -0600 | From | Jon Hamilton <> |
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In message <m0zrYgt-0007U1C@the-village.bc.nu>, Alan Cox wrote: } > } However, GNU/Linux is really the correct terminology assuming your } > } distribution is half made up of GNU tools. } > } > I don't call my PC an "ASUS/AMD/AMI/Samsung/Intel" machine, do you? } } Stallman has said many times all he was trying to do was remind people Linux } is part of one big community of free software not just its own little } community.
And, as is typical for him, he did it in a manner which ensured that he alienated and irritated the maximum number of people as possible who may actually have shared his views and aspirations. In any case, this has all been beaten to death before; I probably shouldn't have replied to the thread in the first place.
-- Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com
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