RMS and GNU/Linux (again)

[Dennis Kibbe]

Quoting "G.D.Thurman" <gthurman@csnet.sc.maricopa.edu>:

> Hello [PLUG] Members...
> 
> The Boston Globe had an Open Source story published 24 December 2002 that 
> I just found out about from David Weinberger (JOHO, 14 February 2003).  
> The Globe story ends with the paragraph...
> 
>   "Stallman declined to be interviewed for this article 
>    unless we promised to call the operating system 
>    'GNU/Linux' instead of the more common 'Linux'."
> 
> Reminds me of when RMS visited the Valley of the Sun
> during October of 2001.
> 
> Weinberger's JOHO comment...
> 
>   "Every time Stallman interrupts a conversation to
>   insist that people change the way they speak, the
>   damage he does to the social values GNU was created
>   to support are mitigated only by the impression that
>   he's nuts."
> 
> Free for All.  Open source software changes the rules.
> http://digitalmass.boston.com/news/2002/12/24/open_source.html
> 
> G.D.Thurman [CS/CIS Instructor]     
> Scottsdale Community College
> 

I'm am admirer of RMS, but I thought it curious that he agreed to speak at the
New York Linux Scene Fundraiser in January
(http://pw1.netcom.com/~casandra/linux/jan24_nylxs.html) since there is no
mention of GNU in their name? Maybe money talks even if you have principles.

Dennis Kibbe

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