that old GNU/Linux argument
Alexandre Oliva
aoliva at redhat.com
Tue Jul 29 02:30:41 UTC 2008
On Jul 28, 2008, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> > You know I really don't care what you call it, but
>> I do care that you are
>> > systematically driving people away from free software.
>>
>> Away from Free Software or away from Fedora and Linux, that
> ^
> ^ Do you really mean Linux
Of course. That's the name of the kernel I'm referring to.
> I thought you were pushing for GNU/Linux.
That's what I use to refer to the combination of the GNU operating
system with the kernel Linux.
> Are you conceding your position?
*sigh*
It feels like you didn't read a word that I wrote :-(
>> are both non-Free Software, and vocally not interested in being
>> Free Software?
> That is not the purpose of the Fedora Project.
The first archived copy of the Fedora Project web page begs to
disagree:
http://web.archive.org/web/20030923215031/http://fedora.redhat.com/
The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community
to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively
from free software.
Everytime a piece of non-Free Software is added, regardless of the
excuse, it becomes more distant from its original goal.
--
Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
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