GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)
David Ford
david at blue-labs.org
Tue Jan 23 04:41:54 CET 2007
what's worse than that? a) someone that walked into the middle of it
and badmouths one side as worst for going on and on about it when we
shut up and the other side was the one going on and on about it and b)
someone that posts the below paragraph that has nothing to do with the
current conversation.
MR wrote:
> the only thing worse than someone that goes on and on about how gnu is
> the only way to be etc is someone that goes on and on and on about how
> those people are wrong and annoying.. IMO this thread is as dead as a
> doornail..
>
> On 1/23/07, David Ford <david at blue-labs.org> wrote:
>> Most sales droids I know wouldn't even have a clue about either GNU or
>> Linux :-D
>>
>> -david
>>
>> Andreas Kostyrka wrote:
>> > * Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> [070122 21:37]:
>> >
>> >> That also wouldn't be accurate. The droid, refering to
>> >> wikipedia-stable, might instead say:
>> >>
>> >> "So, it's something _different_ than Linux?"
>> >> "Well, not really. GNU/Linux is the whole system; Linux is one
>> part of
>> >> the system, and it is a very important part, but it often gets
>> >> misunderstood as the whole system. If you refer to the whole system,
>> >> please call it GNU/Linux."
>> >>
>> >
>> > You've got a quite optimistic view when it comes to sales droids ;)
>> >
>> > Andreas
>> >
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