Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 03 Jan 2003 22:20:20 +0100 | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Subject | Re: Nvidia and its choice to read the GPL "differently" |
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At 03:31 PM 1/3/2003 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: >A rather misguided person wrote this: > > This is the Linux-kernel list. It deals with > Linux-kernel issues. It does not deal with > your continual attempt to claim some sort of > credit for the work of thousands. > >He wants to give all the credit for the whole system to just one >person. I'm asking people to give a group of thousands of people >credit *also*. In which of these two alternatives does one person >claim credit for the work of thousands? The "Linux" alternative does >that. If he applied his own criterion even-handedly to these two >alternatives, he would call the system "GNU/Linux". But he doesn't >apply it even-handedly; he has led himself to apply a double standard. > >Why does an intelligent person do this? He is clinging to the idea >that "Linux" is the right name for the system, and that requires >distorting something. Just as some people insist the Earth is flat, >or that astrology makes valid predictions, others believe that the >whole system is Linux. All of them have to find a way to deny or >ignore the facts in order to go on believing what they believe. > >If you call the system "Linux", you are misinforming other people: >teaching them a false picture of the system's history. Some of them >may become so attached to the false picture that it distorts their >thinking. If you call it "GNU/Linux", this won't happen.
With all due respect Sir, do not address such to me. You know me not.
-Mike
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