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On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Toby Weston spake:
> gllug-bounces at gllug.org.uk wrote:
>> [1] Although I stop short of his ridiculous GNU/Linux crusade.
> 
> Without starting a mass riot, why is his GNU/Linux crusade ridiculous? I
> think its rather quaint :\

Trying to change the meaning of terms in the English language from a
minority position of approximately one is unlikely to work.

(IIRC, it's worked exactly once, for Samuel Webster, and he only did
it by producing an extremely successful dictionary with many of his
neologisms in it... and even there, it only worked for some of them,
and only where his dictionary was popular, i.e., in the US.)

-- 
`The copyright file is for everyone.  That we make it available in
 plain-text, uncompressed form rather than in spinning, throbbing
 OpenGL-rendered 3D text over a thumping dance music soundtrack is a
 feature, not a bug.' --- Branden Robinson

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