Re: tlug: Last night's RMS discussion

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Scott" == Scott M Stone <sstone@example.com> writes:

    >> Richard Stallman (lists.oxlug):
    >> >Would whoever speaks for the FSF

Please note this is addressed to FSF spokesmen.

    >> >please call our operating system by its right name?  Please
    >> >call it GNU, not Linux.

I don't find this unreasonable at all, in that context.

    Scott> I'll start calling it GNU when Stallman writes his own
    Scott> kernel

He has, and Debian is about to start distribution GNU/Hurd Debian.  At 
least the policy manual is prepared for that.

rms is not my favorite person, but he has done a lot of good and you
should oppose him where he's wrong, not where he's arguably correct.

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