[Fsf-india] DEBATE: Why Linux... why GNU/Linux

[E. Krishnan]

On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Raju Mathur wrote:

> Sad to see that so many members of the FSF-I community believe that
> attacking a person is the right way to spread their message of freedom
> and openness.

Maybe we should emulate RMS in this matter, whom I've never seen attacking 
a person. May I quote from one of his earlier mails to this list, 
regarding the issue of Linux vs. GNU/Linux??


	"This is not nice, and not fair to the GNU Project. But fair 
	treatment of the GNU Project is not a first-rank issue. Whether a 
	person is fair to the GNU Project is less important than how he 
	treats people's freedom." 


> Of course, some people like to believe that they
> have solved a problem as soon as they give it a name, but names are
> shallow and superficial and both a result and a cause of sloppy
> thinking.


That's very well put.

-- 
Krishnan