I think there are 2 aspects to this 1: What group of people we cater to and 2: What is the appropriate name to cover this people.<br><br>IMHO I would personally go for a very generic name like [free, open],*nix - not that I think the GNU/Linux monicker should be changed.<br>
<br>Cheers, Nick<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 November 2012 16:09, Dick Thomas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:xpd259@gmail.com" target="_blank">xpd259@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I was thinking about this <span>my self</span> the other day as we exclude <span>bsd</span> users in the district too and most foss is the same on <span>linux</span> and <span>bsd</span><div>
<br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On 12 November 2012 16:08, Andrew Back <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew@carrierdetect.com" target="_blank">andrew@carrierdetect.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>On 12 November 2012 16:02, Nick Rhodes <<a href="mailto:nick@ngrhodes.co.uk" target="_blank">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>
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<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>
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