Re: Bug#149345: misc fixes for GNU/Hurd support
* Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es> [020610 03:33]:
> 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" ...
In general I agree completely, however projects other than GNU do not
have the GNU term used in contexts other than their project. The
extremely popular usage of the term GNU/Linux is relevant in this case.
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-- Grant Bowman <grantbow@grantbow.com>
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