Re: [DEB-USER] Re: alternative motd and logo?
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 06:45:14PM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 10:32:04AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
>
>> * System Wizards (cube@linfe.it) [020801 10:35]:
>> > Here is a possible alternative motd file and a debian/linux logo, to be
>> > used by 'less religiuos' debian users.
>> > My motd file avoids using GNU; i think that such attribution should not
>> > be mandatory.
>>
>> Mandatory schmandatory. "Credit where credit is due" is enough of a
>> reason to insist that it be called by it's true name: "Debian
>> GNU/Linux". Debian is far more than just Linux. My hat's off to the GNU
>> project, and if you think you owe them nothing (or that avoiding giving
>> them credit is something desirable/admirable) you are deluding yourself
>> (and probably only yourself).
>
>I agree that the GNU project deserves credit for much of the software we
>use on Linux. However, the argument that we should then make GNU part of
>the name is bogus. Shall we prepend the inventor's name of every
>invention to the name of the invention? Or every piece of software?
>Shall I be called Paul-son-of-Malcolm-and-Alice?
>
>Linus named it Linux. A name is just a name. A name doesn't have to
>describe what something does, where it came from, or anything else. GNU
>gets puhlenty of credit when the license of 1/3 to 2/3 of the software
>on a typical Linux distro is the GPL.
>
Linus named the KERNEL linux, but the operating system is more than
just a kernel...
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