Free Your Phone

[David Ford]

OpenMoko FIC/GNU/Linus/Alan Cox/X11/Xorg/GTK/... Linux.  Oh, and who is 
the principal for the plastic and silicon?  How about the makers of the 
editors you use to create all this code and give credit to the companies 
that supplied the monitors, cpus, and keyboards?

It's silly and is preposterously religious.  There are thousands of 
people or entities that should get just as much credit as GNU.  There is 
no reason why GNU should be viral in claiming the limelight.  Why isn't 
GNU giving credit to everyone else who put so much effort into improving 
GNU software?   What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

This thread is going to rapidly devolve into the GNU/Linux flame thread 
of the week.  I've stated my opinion and I'm adamantly against 
"GNU/Linux".  I'd rather not post any further on it.

-david

Dave Crossland wrote:
> On 20/01/07, Declan Naughton <piratepenguin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> "What we say is that you ought to give the system's principal
>> developer a share of the credit. The principal developer is the GNU
>> Project, and the system is basically GNU."
> ...
>> How about calling it the Open Moko *Operating System*?
>
> I don't think that's a good idea, because you ought to give the
> system's principal developer a share of the credit, hmm? :-)
>