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Re: GNU/Linux Naming
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David Kastrup |
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Re: GNU/Linux Naming |
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Sat, 08 Dec 2007 01:44:28 +0100 |
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mike3 <mike4ty4@yahoo.com> writes:
> On Dec 7, 2:06 pm, "Alfred M. Szmidt" <a...@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Hmm, so does this mean that the reason why GNU deserves credit
>> in the _name_ and not somewhere else is because GNU's contribution
>> is so significant -- they pretty much built most of the rest of the
>> system?
>>
>> The GNU project deserves credit not only because the GNU project wrote
>> the GNU operating system, but also because they named it. One does
>> not go about calling BSD for System V, despite them being very
>> similar.
>
> I wasn't questioning that the GNU project deserved credit,
> I was wondering why the credit should be *in the name* --
> note that well. Why is the **name** the proper place as
> opposed to somewhere else?
Why "opposed"? Give credit wherever it is appropriate. The name has
the advantage that it is a comparatively effective location. But that
does not mean that you should omit the credit elsewhere where it would
belong.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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