From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:41:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:41:38 -0500 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]:26524 "EHLO fencepost.gnu.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:41:37 -0500 From: Richard Stallman To: Nicolas Pitre CC: mark@mark.mielke.cc, galibert@pobox.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dax@gurulabs.com, lm@bitmover.com, root@chaos.analogic.com, pollard@admin.navo.hpc.mil, R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl, jalvo@mbay.net In-reply-to: (message from Nicolas Pitre on Fri, 17 Jan 2003 22:01:34 -0500 (EST)) Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] RMS and reactions to him Reply-to: rms@gnu.org References: Message-Id: Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:50:39 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Yet you say you're speaking not only for yourself but also for the _hundreds_ of contributors to the GNU project. I said I am asking for credit for them, not just for myself. That is not quite the same thing. Either all those people feel strongly about it and they all mandated a single person in the name of Richard Stallman to bring justice to the World, or they simply feel they like the name "Linux" is nice enough and left you alone to argue about it. Or they don't feel strongly enough to press the point. Or they have been intimidated by the hostility that we sometimes encounter. Many of them do use the term "GNU/Linux", they just don't discuss it here. However that may be, it doesn't affect the fact that the GNU developers deserve credit. This is unfortunate that you left out all my other arguments from my previous mail. I only answer the points that seem significant or worth answering.