[olug] Theo can bite me. [or "OpenSSH Vulnerability"]

Jonathan Warren jonwarren at cox.net
Fri Jul 12 18:49:25 UTC 2002


Just seems strange that he coined a new title that puts GNU in front of Linux.  I don't have any problem with the title except that in the world of freedome people should be free to call it whatever they want.  I don't think anyone discredits GNU's contribution to a linux distro.


On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 06:53:53AM -0500, Brian Wiese wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jun 2002 08:30:37 -0500
> Jonathan Warren <jonwarren at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> |I don't think anyone doubts that a complete distribution includes
> software from lots of place and a ton of it is GNU's.  The strange thing
> about the whole GNU/Linux title is that it is correct but then again Linux
> is just a trademark.  Just because Stallman wants credit for the GNU
> orginization doesn't neccessarily mean we should rebrand Linux to make him
> happy.  Just my .02.  
> |
> |-Jon Warren
> 
> Sorry, its been awhile since I've had some free time... but it's not "to
> make him happy"... its simply to be correct, and to make me happy and
> everyone else who thinks its a shitty deal that nobody (most general
> public) have nfc who Richard Stallman is and what he has done to make what
> is popularly called "Linux" today.  People see "Linux" and their
> impressions are immediately of centered to what the core, ideology, and
> history is to GNU/Linux.  /.02
> 
> 
>   Brian Wiese | bwiese at cotse.com | aim: unolinuxguru
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