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Re: When can we expect a version 1.0 of the GNU Operating System?
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Thien-Thi Nguyen |
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Re: When can we expect a version 1.0 of the GNU Operating System? |
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Wed, 03 Dec 2014 12:43:16 +0100 |
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() "Garreau, Alexandre" <address@hidden>
() Wed, 03 Dec 2014 11:39:31 +0100
This “compromise” is only a view part of the first view. The
first view doesn’t say “lot’s not release any system”, we
still release the system, but in the first view we don’t call
it strictly “GNU”. Hence it’s not a compromise between “not
calling it GNU” and “calling it GNU”: they’re completely
contradictory, and the negation of one implies the other. It
*is* “not calling it GNU” (here “GNU”’s a substantive, not
some astract word that could be intended as a sustantive /or/
an adjective, with in the latter case a hope in the fact we
can still say to be in the second view calling it “GNU”, but
using GNU as an adjective and completing it with the
sustantive “reference”).
If we interpret both "GNU" and "reference" as adjectives, there
can never be "the" ADJ ADJ N, all such N are "a" ADJ ADJ N.
It's easy to see how "GNU" is an adjective; any N described as
such is intolerant of proprietary software.
Re "reference": It describes how the proponents of N view N.
If the creators of N are the only proponents, it is marketing.
If the GNU project direction (i.e., rms) becomes a proponent,
it is still marketing, but w/ endorsement.
As pointed out previously, endorsement risks disenfranchisement.
So i think the best course of action is to put effort into
clearly describing the inappropriateness of "the", or IOW the
appropriateness of considering ADJ ADJ N a family, whose number
must necessarily start w/ 1, but hopefully will not stop there.
Sibling rivalry towards rectitude is just, IMO. Fratricide: no.
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Re: When can we expect a version 1.0 of the GNU Operating System?, Olaf Buddenhagen, 2014/12/01