Red Hat 7.2 B2 comments (rant)

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

I think I may have been the only volunteer who wanted the name change :-).
I do object to GNU/Linux to the exclusion of GNU/FreeBSD. GNU software is a 
big part of most non-commercial Unix/Linux distributions, but there are 
many other important pieces. Many commands come from the Berkeley project. 
Others, like PERL, the Linux kernel, the BSD kernels, are not GNU. 
So, while I feel that the FSF should get more recognition, it should not 
dominate.  
On 29 Aug 2002 at 15:35, John Abreau wrote:
> RMS first asked us to change the name of our group in 1995. We spent about 
> an hour of our next volunteer meeting discussing his request, and 
> ultimately
> decided not to. Since then, I've bumped into RMS maybe four or five times 
> at the LinuxWorld Expos and the Atlanta Linux shows, and he's repeated the 
> request each time, and spoke at length about GNU/Linux to the exclusion of 
> the IP issues I would have liked to discuss with him.

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