From: Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] RMS and reactions to him
Date: 18 Jan 2003 17:14:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1042906466.10426.121.camel@localhost> (raw)
RMS wrote:
> I'm glad you appreciate our work, but if you call the system "Linux",
> you lead other people to suppose it was done by Linus.
I think I see now why you have been pursuing this issue like
a abused Pit Bull. You perceive in the name 'Linux' an implicit
claim that what it denotes is entirely the work of Linus Torvalds.
There is no such implication in it. As for interpretation,
Linux newbies don't even know that someone named 'Linus Torvalds'
exists, while Linux cognoscenti know perfectly well that
Linus Torvalds didn't write the whole thing. That leaves the
semi-informed, i.e., journalists, but who cares what they
think? There is no problem here.
IT'S JUST A NAME
--
Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>
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2003-01-18 16:14 Thomas Hood [this message]
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2003-01-14 22:14 [OFFTOPIC] RMS and reactions to him Ed Vance
2003-01-14 22:46 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-01-14 22:54 ` Cort Dougan
2003-01-14 20:53 Dow, Benjamin
2003-01-14 19:06 Nvidia and its choice to read the GPL "differently" Larry McVoy
2003-01-14 19:56 ` [OFFTOPIC] RMS and reactions to him Dax Kelson
2003-01-14 20:02 ` Larry McVoy
2003-01-14 20:19 ` Olivier Galibert
2003-01-14 20:36 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-01-14 20:45 ` Larry McVoy
2003-01-15 23:28 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-14 21:08 ` Mark Mielke
2003-01-14 21:51 ` Chris Funderburg
2003-01-14 22:13 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-01-14 22:27 ` Wakko Warner
2003-01-15 16:39 ` Horst von Brand
2003-01-16 23:12 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-01-15 23:28 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-16 2:51 ` Nicolas Pitre
2003-01-18 0:47 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-18 0:56 ` Larry McVoy
2003-01-19 1:36 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-19 5:55 ` Matthew D. Pitts
2003-01-18 3:01 ` Nicolas Pitre
2003-01-18 14:23 ` andrea.glorioso
2003-01-20 0:50 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-20 1:46 ` Nicolas Pitre
2003-01-21 18:17 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-21 18:30 ` Larry McVoy
2003-01-21 18:55 ` Nicolas Pitre
2003-07-20 2:42 ` Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
2003-07-20 19:30 ` Brian McGroarty
2003-07-20 22:00 ` Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
2003-01-16 5:23 ` Steve Lee
2003-01-18 0:47 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-20 13:38 ` Horst von Brand
2003-01-22 9:59 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-22 10:19 ` Paulo Andre'
2003-01-22 11:05 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-01-22 12:56 ` Dave Jones
2003-01-22 16:21 ` Mark Mielke
2003-01-23 11:37 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-23 13:17 ` Murray J. Root
2003-01-23 18:15 ` Vlad@Vlad.geekizoid.com
2003-07-20 2:27 ` Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
2003-07-20 8:09 ` Florian Weimer
2003-07-20 8:49 ` Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
2003-07-20 10:55 ` Wichert Akkerman
2003-07-20 21:52 ` Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
2003-07-20 22:09 ` Wichert Akkerman
2003-07-20 22:38 ` David Lloyd
2003-01-22 16:44 ` John Alvord
2003-01-23 1:31 ` Nick Matteo
2003-01-20 16:52 ` Jerry Cooperstein
2003-01-22 17:14 ` Jan Harkes
2003-01-14 20:27 ` Abramo Bagnara
2003-01-14 21:51 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-01-15 8:42 ` Abramo Bagnara
2003-01-14 21:42 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-01-15 12:47 ` Gaël Le Mignot
2003-01-14 20:15 ` Abramo Bagnara
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