Re: [DLC] Richard Stallman, presenting at UofC, Monday April 2nd

Been trying since 1999/98 ... haven't succeed yet.  All of you =3D=3D no fu=
n!

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Matthew P Kemp



On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:21 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> I like the name you suggest "DePaul Users of Free Operating Systems" I ju=
st
> dont think I would be too crazy about the acronym: DUFOS (?)
>
> but that's just me....
>
> /*Joel Alonso*/
>
> ________________________________
> From: "Matthew P Kemp" <[email protected]>
> To: "DePaul Linux Community - Discuss" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 8:48:12 AM
>
> Subject: Re: [DLC] Richard Stallman, presenting at UofC, Monday April 2nd
>
> Actually DLUG became DGLUG for a bit. =A0I am still voting for DePaul
> Users of Free Operating Systems, but I keep losing that battle. =A0BSD
> be damned!
>
> --
> Matthew P Kemp
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:16 AM, John Kristoff <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Someone said that Stallman is the father of Linux. =A0I doubt Richard
>> would even claim that, especially since he would insist you call the
>> entire operating system GNU/Linux. =A0Nevertheless, the FSF has this to
>> say:
>>
>> =A0If we tried to measure the GNU Project's contribution in this way,
>> =A0what would we conclude? One CD-ROM vendor found that in their "Linux
>> =A0distribution", GNU software was the largest single contingent, around
>> =A028% of the total source code, and this included some of the essential
>> =A0major components without which there could be no system. Linux itself
>> =A0was about 3%. (The proportions in 2008 are similar: in the "main"
>> =A0repository of gNewSense, Linux is 1.5% and GNU packages are 15%.) So =
if
>> =A0you were going to pick a name for the system based on who wrote the
>> =A0programs in the system, the most appropriate single choice would be
>> =A0=93GNU=94.
>>
>> =A0<http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html>
>>
>> Whatever you call it, it's an aggregate of many licenses, people and
>> borrowed ideas from other projects.
>>
>> As a historical note, I recall this group once seriously considering
>> changing it's name from the original DLUG to DGLUG or something similar
>> to acquiesce to the FSF when it was made clear by Bradley Kuhn when he
>> visited DePaul that RMS himself wouldn't come to DePaul unless this
>> group changed it's name to put 'GNU' or something about free software in
>> it's name.
>>
>> John
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