[Nottingham] Fwd: Stallman Lecture

[Jim Driscoll]

On Thursday, October 23, 2003, at 05:34 PM, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
>
> Possibly a misleading use of the word "our" there - RMS is clear that 
> he is
> *not* speaking at a ShefLug meeting and says he has asked them to 
> change
> their website accordingly.
>
>
>> I don't want to speak at a meeting of a group that calls the GNU 
>> operating
>> system "Linux". That's unfair to the GNU Project. I cannot tell them 
>> what
>> to say, but I won't legitimize the misnomer by appearing under the 
>> banner of
>> "Linux".
>
>

*chuckle* that is exactly how I'd expect him to react. After all, I'm 
not sure RMS will ever be happy with linux until it is consistently 
called GNU/linux, all the software is GPL and... err... it's switched 
to using the HURD as a kernel. If you told him it was the Sheffield 
GNU/Linux User Group (GLUG? I like that acronym) he probably would have 
reacted less negatively.

Jim