| |||||||||||||
Asking the FSF for commentsAsking the FSF for commentsPosted Dec 23, 2012 9:38 UTC (Sun) by jae (guest, #2369)In reply to: Asking the FSF for comments by ferringb Parent article: GnuTLS, copyright assignment, and GNU project governance
GNU/Linux is overreaching?
Do you have a non-GNU Linux system? Remove GNU coreutils, and then boot your system. Fun, innit?
It may be replacable, but it isn't being replaced.
As to the retarded part... only retards call others retarded.
(Log in to post comments)
Asking the FSF for comments Posted Dec 23, 2012 10:23 UTC (Sun) by ekj (guest, #1524) [Link]
No, but "we are unwilling to talk to you about this matter unless you agree beforehand to use our preferred words" is.
Asking the FSF for comments Posted Dec 23, 2012 11:37 UTC (Sun) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
What on earth does coreutils have to do with the grandparent's post?
Asking the FSF for comments Posted Dec 23, 2012 11:40 UTC (Sun) by rleigh (subscriber, #14622) [Link]
It is overreaching. I have no problems with the FSF/GNU using such terminology, that's their perogative. I use it myself. But to require other parties to use their terminology is certainly overreaching.
I've read time and time again people (mainly RMS) harp on and on about this point to others, quite often to the detriment of the real subject of discussion. That is to say that by obsessing over this minor point of terminology the discussion was sidetracked into irrelevance, and the actual important discussion was forgotten. This does not help the FSF/GNU in any meaningful way. Forcing others to adopt their terminology does not advance their real goal of software freedom.
Asking the FSF for comments Posted Dec 31, 2012 21:32 UTC (Mon) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877) [Link]
> Do you have a non-GNU Linux system? Remove GNU coreutils, and then boot your system. Fun, innit?
I do. http://android.com
Whether this is better or worse than GNU/Linux is a pretty open question and a good conversation for friends over beers. :)
|
|||||||||||||