[PLUG] Linux vs GNU Linux

Keith Lofstrom keithl at kl-ic.com
Fri Nov 21 08:03:02 UTC 2003


The purpose of communicating is to communicate, not to create verbal
monuments to heros.  There are damned few people that understand what
"GNU Linux" means, and the number that understand that term and do NOT
understand "Linux" is probably zero.

There are the Politically Correct neurotics (left, right, and geek)
that use this as an excuse to interrupt conversation.  Such people
should be made to say "Boule Babbage Lovelace Von Neumann Eckhert
Mauchley Metcalfe Thompson Ritchie Berners-Lee GNU Linux", giving
rational people time to get away.  

RMS and the GNU crowd did and do wonderful things.  Build them marble
monuments in the park, not verbal timewasters in sentences.

Keith

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