[Gllug] GLLUG ->Gnu Linux London Users Group

[Dan Kolb]

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On Sunday 17 Feb 2002 19:53 pm, Nick Hill wrote:
> > This is a battle that has been lost, in the wider world and on this
>
> The battle is only lost when your beliefs in what is right and good die.
> The battle has just begun.

It's just a name. Why not the "Greater London Unix and Unix-Like Operating 
Systems Users Groups" (GLUULOSUG)? I'm sure there's people on this list who 
use Solaris and/or the *BSDs. Does this mean that they wouldn't be welcome at 
meetings, just because Gllug is currently the GL *Linux* UG? Similarly, how 
many people here are *not* from the Greater London area? I would guess at 
quite a few.

Doesn't calling it a GNU/Linux users group discriminate against people who 
use Perl/Linux (there was the project to write all the user-land tools in 
Perl, wasn't there?), or maybe even some people who've ported the BSD 
userland to Linux?

I would guess that most, if not all, people who use Linux on their desktop, 
use X. A lot of those people quite possibly use KDE, that's built on top of 
QT from Trolltech. Should they be using Troll/X/GNU/Linux? What about if they 
use StarOffice under KDE? (Which, IMHO, would be a perfectly standard use in 
most office situations.) Sun/Troll/X/GNU/Linux?

If we use tools in the Cygwin environment to do most of our work under 
Windows, should we then call it GNU/Windows?

My beliefs in what's right and good are not altered by names. I couldn't care 
if Richard Stallman called his organisation AOL/Time-Warner/GNU. As long as 
it stood for the same principles as always, I'd be happy.

Hmm...this post didn't really go anywhere, did it?

Dan
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