Messages in this thread | | | From | "Matthew D. Pitts" <> | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC] RMS and reactions to him | Date | Sun, 19 Jan 2003 00:55:48 -0500 |
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> That lesson concerns sharing credit with people who are trying to help > you. That's the reason I talk about the work that we, the GNU > Project, have done, rather than focusing on my individual role. (I > don't ask people to name the system after my name.) > > However, letting the credit for our work fall entirely to someone who > never was part of our project and doesn't share our values and goals > is a different matter. That would be self-defeating. Leadership 101 > doesn't need to talk about this, because even cadet leaders generally > already know they should not let rival movements take the credit for > the work they and their supporters have done. > > We do give Torvalds a share of the credit by calling the system > "GNU/Linux". > Richard,
I think someone else might have sais this, but I will say it now. Many, if not all, Linux distibutions give the GNU Project credit for the utilities that were written by it. Is that not sufficient?
Matthew D. Pitts
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