Red Hat 7.2 B2 comments (rant)

Ron Peterson ron.peterson at yellowbank.com
Thu Aug 29 15:00:48 EDT 2002


On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 02:20:49PM -0400, Derek D. Martin wrote:

> At some point hitherto, Ron Peterson hath spake thusly:

> > rms is not compelling anyone to do anything.  He's requesting.  There's
> > a difference.
> 
> There is a difference, I agree.  However on the basis of who he is
> alone, there are those who will feel compelled to do as he asks, and
> attempt to pursuade others to do the same.  I'm reasonably sure he
> knows this, and thus in practice the difference is largely moot.

Well, this is getting nitpicky, but can you give an example of someone
who RMS has *compelled* to say 'GNU/Linux'?



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