Sorry that was my reply which started this.

I should say I am Glad to see the Dutch Government taking a proactive 
approach on this issue. I hope this motivates the government in the U.S. to 
remedy the same situation in the states.

On Tuesday 21 August 2001 18:11, you wrote:
> Someone made a reply that looked like an English teacher correcting
> grammer.  This hasn't really been a flame war though.  More like an
> examination of the evolution of [GNU] Linux and a rehash of the
> arguments why people do / do not use the GNU prefix.  (Though I may have
> put my tongue too far into my cheek with the GNU/BSD/Artistic/... Linux
> message.)  A flame war usually devolves into people calling each other
> names.  What we've had here is a refreshingly civil discussion of the
> topic.
>
> "John (EBo) David" wrote:
> > James wrote:
> > > I did not mean to start a flame war at all. Let just try to keep it a
> > > discussion and I hope to get allot of input back.
> >
> > I had not wanted to start a flame war either...  I was just trying to
> > inform people that a national government is sueing MS over their
> > business practices.  This ties into several leagalistic discussions we
> > had in the past.  I'm not sure how the GNU/Linux debate got into it...
> >
> >   EBo --
> > ________________________________________________
> > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't
> > post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail.
> >
> > PLUG-discuss mailing list  -  PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>
> ________________________________________________
> See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't
> post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail.
>
> PLUG-discuss mailing list  -  PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss