Re: Bug#149345: misc fixes for GNU/Hurd support
On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 03:47:22PM -0700, Grant Bowman wrote:
> * Alfred M. Szmidt <ams@kemisten.nu> [020609 15:25]:
> >
> > The GNU project is a project to make an free operating system, GNU.
> > This just happens to be GNU/Hurd.
>
> That's a rather obtuse viewpoint even if it is correct and known
> perspective. It does not take into account common usage of the GNU name
> or address the argument I presented. Aside from restating your
> viewpoint in the face of an alternative I do not see the intended
> meaning of your posting.
Whenever a group of people start a project to create a piece of software,
say, "Bar", you can automaticaly refer to their project as "the Bar project".
This doesn't mean the "Bar" term is confusive. You can find it everywhere:
"the Mozilla project", "the OpenOffice project" ...
cheers,
--
Robert Millan
"5 years from now everyone will be running
free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5"
Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992
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