This is such a waste... True, FSF owns very little of the software, and most people don't call it GNU/Linux, but so what if some people do? Is that a reason not to use perfectly good, well-developed, well-tested, free software? I've found GNU's software to be some of the best. I take everything Stallman says with a grain of salt, but he's an awesome hacker with a lot of motivation. I proudly run GNU software on my system. I don't have to; I could walk into the other room and run that copy of Watcom C++ I paid a bunch of $$$ for on a Windows machine. But gcc is just as good, if not better. Stallman can gripe about Linux's name all he wants, and he's welcome to call it GNU/Linux if that pleases him. It doesn't mean anyone else has to.
This is such a superficial issue. These people are taking much-needed resources away from progress in their attempt to rewrite the wheel over a brand name dispute...
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This is such a waste... True, FSF owns very little of the software, and most
people don't call it GNU/Linux, but so what if some people do? Is that a
reason not to use perfectly good, well-developed, well-tested, free
software? I've found GNU's software to be some of the best. I take
everything Stallman says with a grain of salt, but he's an awesome hacker
with a lot of motivation. I proudly run GNU software on my system. I don't
have to; I could walk into the other room and run that copy of Watcom C++ I
paid a bunch of $$$ for on a Windows machine. But gcc is just as good, if
not better. Stallman can gripe about Linux's name all he wants, and he's
welcome to call it GNU/Linux if that pleases him. It doesn't mean anyone
else has to.
This is such a superficial issue. These people are taking much-needed
resources away from progress in their attempt to rewrite the wheel over a
brand name dispute...
-Reeves