a long rebuttal to the Linux-is-the-engine fallacy

[Antonio Olivares]

> >> And if your agenda is to influence the intuition
> of general public
> >> regarding the name,
> > 
> > My agenda is to promote freedom.
> 
> It's too bad you've confused restrictions with
> freedom.
> 
> > My reasoning is that, even if I
> > don't convince anyone that the name GNU is
> relevant, at the very least
> > I'll have reached several people with the
> underlying message. 
> 
> GNU is a radical political movement.  Putting the name next
> to Linux 
> makes it seem as though Linus himself endorses the
> movement.  But that's 
> rather dishonest, given that Linus has always stayed away
> from such 
> political zealotry.
> 
> -- 

+1