On Jul 27, 2008, Gordon Messmer <yinyang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Antonio Olivares wrote: >> When this project was born, RMS should have demanded right then and >> there that the project be named GNU/Linux, I have read that he >> suggested LiGNUX, but that it sounded awkward > At the time, RMS had no reason to suggest any such thing. When he was > suggesting names for Linus' kernel, He never did such a thing, AFAIK. He suggested a name for the combination of the operating system GNU with the kernel Linux. Never to the kernel itself. That he did is just one of the lies by those who want to denigrate the RMS, the FSF and the Free Software movement. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
