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From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
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On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 08:40:26AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
>     It is the ultimate in hypocrisy to ask others for something you aren't 
>     willing to do yourself.  I, for one, will remind you of this every time
>     you bring up GNU/Linux in this list.
> 
> These two cases are similar, but not in the way you think.  In both
> cases a large structure that is basically GNU or of GNU has a
> component that is Linux or of Linux.
> 
> So why do we treat them differently?  In general, there's no ethical
> obligation to cite each and every component of a larger structure in
> the structure's name.  

Great.  So not only is there no legal need to cite GNU in the Linux 
name, there is no ethical obligation either.  Thanks for clearing 
that up.
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Larry McVoy            	 lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitmover.com/lm