Re: new port: and the winner is....
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 A Mennucc1 <debian@Tonelli.sns.it> wrote:
[...]
> Why? well, there was no big consenous on any name; so I looked at the
> problem the other way around, and saw that nobody was actually against
> 'win', but for
> jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl (Janusz S. Biee?), who said that
>
> > In hacker language, calling something a "win" is a form of praise. We
> > don't want to praise a non-free Microsoft system, so we don't call it
> > "win".
>
> but this does not apply here; I indeed hope that 'Debian GNU/win'
> will be a 'win' :-)
The quotation is misattributed; I've just forwarded the often repeated
statement of Richard Stallman.
Regards
JSB
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dr hab. Janusz S. Bien, prof. UW
Prof. Janusz S. Bien, Warsaw Uniwersity
http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/
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