[Nottingham] NLUG: What's in a name?

[Joshua Lock]

On 9 June 2011 19:32, Going It Alone <reggaemaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why should the name Linux win over that of GNU?  What is so
> intimidating about the name GNU/Linux?
>
> "Now don't get me wrong, I have a lot of love for GNU and what Stallman
>  and the FSF have done..."
>
> But not enough love to have you publicly named alongside Linux.

Personally I rarely refer to Linux either. I run Fedora on my laptop
and Android on my phone. Not Fedora GNU Slash Linux and Android Bionic
Linux. Blech.

> "...but I don't feel that the distinction is
>  worthwhile to site visitors."
>
> Just how many visitors have said this to you?  Is the distinction not
> worthwhile to the GNU contributors?

Said what, that it's not worthwhile? Well, at least two people in this
thread have stated that the distinction makes it seem more
intimidating.

> So for simplicities sake GNU should be reduced to a footnote.
>
> There's nothing wrong in my opinion with the site naming both major
> contributors.

Both? Only GNU and the Linux kernel make significant contributions to
your system?

How about Nottingham
GNU/Mozilla/GNOME/KDE/Freedesktop/Apache/LibreOffice/AdInfinitum/Linux?
:-)

Joshua
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Joshua Lock