[wplug] In closing

[Michael M Delaney]

Just to play devils advocate (or something along those lines),
what about, for example, X?  X is not under a GNU liscense, and neither is
Mozilla, so should we become the Western
PA GNU/X/Mozilla/OtherLiscense/Linux Users Group?

Why should we change the name of just one liscense?  Seems kinda unfair to
me, but it's not something we could do.  So lets just keep it at Linux,
its also less confusing to newbies.

Mike D

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Vanco, Don wrote:

> Wow - you're _totally_ forgeting that Linux is _just_ a kernel.  Without
> GNU, Linux is little more than a great way to keep CPUs warm.  NOt saying
> that RMS is right in all respects, but it _is_ GNU/Linux that we're all
> using.......
>
> Don
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wplug-admin at wplug.org on behalf of Casey West
> Sent: Tue 2/17/2004 1:25 PM
> To: wplug at wplug.org
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: [wplug] In closing
>
>
>
> It was Tuesday, February 17, 2004 when Jonathan S Billings took the soap
> box, saying:
> : On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 12:05, Weber, Larry A wrote:
> : > By the way has any consideration been given to formally modify WPLUG to
> be a
> : > GNU / Linux User Group?  http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-user-groups.html
> <http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-user-groups.html>
> :
> : I thought that was a good idea until I looked at the web page, where RMS
> : goes on a rant, saying it should be called GNU/Linux and we must call
> : ourselves a GNU/Linux users group.
>
> It's all silly anyway. Back when Linux hit the scene it was an enemy
> of the FSF, a dumb hack that took mindshare from the HURD. Why, then,
> does RMS even care about Linux? In those days the FSF was known for
> pumping out amazing software and only letting in the best written
> code. Now that Linux beat the HURD RMS wants to take all the glory for
> writing a decent license that Linux uses. Seems silly to me, I thought
> Linux was all about getting out of the mindless "HURD" and thinking
> for yourself. ;-)
>
>   Casey West
>
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