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Red Hat 7.2 B2 comments (rant)



JABR,
Time for you to recount the time when RMS wanted us to change the name of 
our group :-)
On 29 Aug 2002 at 15:12, John Abreau wrote:
> I would argue that he's overdoing it. I actually agree with a lot of what
> rms writes about; we certainly see eye-to-eye on the problems with copyright
> and patents in the software field. But I don't agree with his stance on the
> GNU/Linux thing, and whenever I bump into him at a trade show, he always 
> asks that I change the name of our user group. I've made it clear that 
> I'm not going to change our name, but even after that he won't discuss 
> other issues. Maybe it's just me, but it seems that when I'm present, he'll
> only talk about GNU/Linux.

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