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Re: publicity ...

Well, somehow this discussion turned into something very
unrelated to the subject line.  In any case, there seems to be
two camps here (big surprise):

One crowd thinks that the name of the OS is and should be the
name of the kernel.  RMS is obviously not in this camp ;-)

The other camp thinks it would be good publicity (and kind of
fun) to name the OS something creative.

My position is sort of in the middle.  The vast majority of us
don't seem to care.  I do think it strange that a child of the
GNU project (who is quick to raise the shield of the FSF when it
suits us) is as eager to call the primarily GNU based OS
"linux".  I know this is an old argument, and I don't want to
open old wounds, but I do find it odd.  Should Debian also one
day distribute a hurd based system, I suspect the same crowd
would then be in favor of calling it "hurd".  In any case, it
looks like naming the OS anything other than "linux" is not going
to be well received by at least some of us, so its not a good
idea to consider it for a method to gain publicity or
change/improve the image of the product.  

Oh well.  I won't take this any further then.  Please send any
comments on this stuff to me as it doesn't seem to have
pertinence to the list anymore.  I don't want the above comments
to draw unnecessary postings to debian-private.

Thanks

Richard G. Roberto
richr@bear.com
011-81-3-3437-7967 - Tokyo, Japan


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