Re: RMS endorsement for the Compromise Public License...maybe

At 02:44 AM 7/10/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Bob La Quey wrote:
> >> I ask that you please stop calling the operating system Linux. The
> >> Linux kernel is just a small part of the operating system. Many of the
> >> software programs that make up the operating system you call Linux
> >> were not developed by Linus Torvalds at all. They were created by GNU
> >> Project volunteers, putting in their own personal time so that users
> >> might have a free operating system like the one we have today. To not
> >> acknowledge the contribution of those programmers is both impolite and
> >> a misrepresentation of history. That's why I ask that when you refer
> >> to the operating system, please call it by its proper name, GNU/Linux.
> >>         -- RMS
> >
> >
> > There is a long continuing discussion of this in the net-news group
> > comp.unix.admin. A good comment is:

Here is the comment that was (perhaps by mistake) edited out of
S11001001 <[email protected]> message.
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Being opposed to an awful name does not mean we don't want GNU
to have credit. It's just that the name of a system is the
wrong place to put it. Since my system would never be able to
do anything graphical without the good work of the folks over at
xfree86.org, should I be calling it GNU/XFREE86/Linux? Oh, wait,
there's also the wonderful work at Darpa that put together the
whole TCP/IP thing in the first place, which is such a large part
of what I do that it should be mentioned too, so should it be called
GNU/XFREE86/DARPA/Linux? Oh, but wait, there's more - I'm using
KDE, which is another massive project with lots of code on my
system, so perhaps it should be GNU/XFREE86/DARPA/KDE/Linux?
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I don't know to whom attribute it.

Bob La Quey