Re: [school-discuss] Donated Computers announcement, Take III

[Dennis Heuer <dh@onclick.org>]

Keep your feet on the ground. You always get so emotional when
discussing FSF issues. 

First, GNU is not the GPL and the GPL is not GNU. So, if somebody
releases his product under the GPL he does not release a GNU product
automatically. This is why GNU/Linux does not help further. Say the
"buzzword" Linux or talk about "free software". GNU/Linux only expresses
a small sighted viewpoint of an extremist who can't keep the feet on the
ground and ignores all the rest around GNU/Linux which is not mentioned
by this "term". 

Second, you shouldn't discuss this here but in the FSF mailinglist--or,
if you can't suppress it, at slashdot.

Keep in mind that if people talk about linux they don't mean linux but
"just everything". If they say GNU/Linux they actually mean "only GNU"
and ignore everthing else.

Dennis

Am Mon, 2002-05-06 um 12.51 schrieb Jeffrey Elkner:
>  Daniel is absolutely right.  It is the GPL that made Linux possible,
> and it is the GPL that will still be protecting freedom to collaborate
> long after Linux is replaced by the next great open source OS.  Let's
> give credit where credit is due.
> 
> jeff elkner
> yorktown high school
> arlington, va
>  
> 
> On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 00:59, Daniel Carter wrote:
> > Everyone,
> > 
> > >LINUX ENABLES SAFE COMPUTER DONATIONS TO SCHOOLS
> > 
> > I personally prefer referring to 'Linux' as 'GNU/Linux'.  After all, most
> > of the core software in any 'Linux distribution' is part of the GNU System.
> > Does anyone else agree with me?
> > 
> > Daniel Carter
>