<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div></div><div><span>RMS didn't click with me at first. My mind immediately seized on Root Mean Square.</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span><br></span></div><div><span>BCA :-)</span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Andrew Back <andrew@carrierdetect.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Nick Rhodes <nick@ngrhodes.co.uk> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk
<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, 12 November 2012, 16:08<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Bradford] Why is Bradlug GNU/Linux and not just Linux ?<br> </font> </div> <br>On 12 November 2012 16:02, Nick Rhodes <<a ymailto="mailto:nick@ngrhodes.co.uk" href="mailto:nick@ngrhodes.co.uk">nick@ngrhodes.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>> As the title asks...<br><br>My guess would be that whoever founded the group thought that<br>GNU/Linux was appropriate. See:<br><br> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy</a><br><br>Or perhaps you are actually asking why they took the same position as<br>RMS and the FSF et al ...<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Andrew<br><br>-- <br>Andrew Back<br><a href="http://carrierdetect.com/"
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