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Re: GNU within the name



Mathieu Roy wrote:
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When I'm told that a system is running GNU/whatever, I expect first to
find there GNU coreutils, GNU bash, GNU Emacs, GNU Compiler
Collection, gzip, GNU awk,GNU make, the GNU Debugger, GNU sysutils,
GNU tar, GNUpg, GNU grep, GNU mailutils, GNU ncurses, GNU readline,
GNU shellutils, GNU wget...

you can install these on pretty much any system... is my gaming machine running gnu/win xp? or did we use gnu/solaris at -xxx-?

this GNU narcissism is pretty annoying... where's the freedom RSM is promoting? the software is released under GPL and that's it. Nowhere in the GPL it says you have to call your project GNU/something.

	erik



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