Alexandre Oliva wrote:
GNU is a radical political movement. Putting the name next to
Linux makes it seem as though Linus himself endorses the movement.
But that's rather dishonest, given that Linus has always stayed
away from such political zealotry.
So I added a +1) and sent it in.
So it would be dishonest to retain the name of the system that Linus
chose to use along with his kernel because of imaginary concerns that
he himself waved away when he said he didn't care if it was called
GNU/Linux, but it's honest to rename it to something that makes it
harder for the software to achieve its goal, and denies credit to its
authors while at that?
Double standards?
If Linus was concerned about having the GNU name next to Linux, he
wouldn't have oked the name. If he was concerned about distancing
himself from GNU, he might as well have kept a distance from all that
GNU software.
That argument doesn't hold even ice, let alone water :-)
He just seems like such a nice guy and it is wrong to take advantage of
his agreeable nature to make it incorrectly appear that he supports the
radical political zealotry.
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