[Fsf-friends] Request to RedHat

[The GNU/Linuxer]

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>Hello,
>Do you think any request to Red Hat to change the name of their distro
>to Red Hat GNU/Linux will work?
>
>We can try that as it is the most popular distro and the name can reach
>many people.

Well, I don't think RH will bother much. As RMS has pointed out, business firms like Red Hat are trying to cash on the ``popularity factor'' rather than the philosophy behind it & rarely acknowledge the initiative taken by the FSF to create a ``free'' OS & still tell people that ``Linux'' is an OS that was *created* by Linus Torvalds. They just mention the name of the GNU Project at the end of the manuals where they include the GPL - thus bewildering the uninitiated & forcing him to think what on earth ``GNU'' is. IMHO, Mandrake is the only company to use the name GNU/Linux in its manuals & all the treeware. I am really not much confident about big companies like RH & SuSE, which happens to be my distro.

B. Ghose




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<P>&gt;Hello,<BR>&gt;Do you think any request to Red Hat to change the name of their distro<BR>&gt;to Red Hat GNU/Linux will work?<BR>&gt;<BR>&gt;We can try that as it is the most popular distro and the name can reach<BR>&gt;many people.</P>
<P>Well, I don't think RH will bother much. As RMS has pointed out, business firms like Red Hat are trying to cash on the ``popularity factor'' rather than the philosophy behind it &amp; rarely acknowledge the initiative taken by the FSF to create a ``free'' OS &amp; still tell people that ``Linux'' is an OS that was *created* by Linus Torvalds. They just mention the name of the GNU Project at the end of the manuals where they include the GPL - thus bewildering the uninitiated &amp; forcing him to think what on earth ``GNU'' is. IMHO, Mandrake is the only company to use the name GNU/Linux in its manuals &amp; all the treeware. I am really not much confident about big companies like RH &amp; SuSE, which happens to be my distro.<BR><BR>B. Ghose<BR></P><p><br><hr size=1>Do you Yahoo!?<br>
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