On Thursday 28 December 2006 20:36, Mrugesh Karnik wrote:
On Thursday 28 December 2006 14:11, jtd wrote:
On Thursday 28 December 2006 00:30, Mrugesh Karnik wrote:
On Thursday 28 December 2006 00:09, Roshan wrote:
In that same email, I've specified my view about GNU/Linux. Read it up. I hear that the term GNU/Linux is used to portray the importance of freedom. Would you rather not use FOSS/Linux then? A Free and Open Source Operating System atop the Linux kernel. Doesn't that sound more appropriate? Aren't the other components of the system Free too? Sure, they do not focus on the aspect, GNU does, but in the end, they ARE free and they're not GNU software. That's my point.
when u say GNU/Linux u are not pointing to software (GNU or otherwise). U are pointing to the importance of freedom. When u say open source u mean the source is open but not neccessarily free. Which is something different and is nicely exploited by M$ saying that their shared source is open.
Apache, X, and others do not focuss on this aspect (and they need not too) because others are doing that job. We too are doing our bit in the same vein.
Right. I do my part too.
Except labeling people as fanatics.
Are we trying to denigrate the others - most certainly not. I fail to see how focussing on freedom as per the GNU manifesto in anyway detracts from ANY contibutor to the FOSS universe. Having read the urls someone will form an opinion - for, against or dontcare - which is better than forming an opinion without knowing the basis for his opinions.
Exactly. I see the URL pointing to GNU's opinion. Where's the opinion of the people who disagree with the term GNU/Linux? If the content you put up leads people to form an opinion, shouldn't you present both sides of the argument?
Why cant u do that?
The fact as it stands in today's world is that the freedom message is being diluted and hidden all the while. In many cases actively subverted. Linux and the entire FOSS ecosystem has flourished because of the GPL and it's staunch defendants. All the others would have been academic curiosities, milked for their freebie technology and ditched at the first opportunity. Just count the number (never mind usefullness) of libre software developed exclusively on a non-free platform.