On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 12:47:55AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 09:29:14PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > > And confrontationally pointing this out to people every time they use > > > the word 'Linux' alone to refer to the OS is extremely anti-social. > > > > And still not giving credit to people who wrote the biggest part of > > the OS after being corrected isn't anti-social? > > Didn't somebody say this program used qt? There were times when _you_ > would have been shot by RMS for claiming qt to be a part of GNU. > > Don't get me wrong: I somewhat symphatize with calling it GNU/Linux, > as long as we are talking about the Operating System itself. But if we > start talking about dependancies, why not call it 'a multithreaded MP3 > manager and tag editor for GNU/Linux/XFree86/qt/foo'? Lookup my post and see to which 3 lines I replied. > > > RMS > > > is a genius and a hermit. What's *your* excuse? > > > > There are people on IRC who call me "the Dutch RMS". Maybe that says > > enough about me. And is RMS really a hermit? > > The thing is: RMS is around for a long time and really changed the > world. The only visible thing I've seen from you is bitching about > giving something proper credits. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure you did a > hell of a lot more for the Free Software Community than I did, but I'd > prefer RMS finishing the NM process and evangelize us himself, while > you'd get the Hurd port released ASAP. RMS isn't going to finish his NM process anytime soon because he is too busy. And I don't think he's going to subscribe to a high traffic list as debian-devel. :) Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
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