Re: [Fsfe-uk] Why FS is a Good Thing

[Alex Hudson]

On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 19:42, MJ Ray wrote:
> > Do you consistently refer to XFree86 or do you just say X?  [...]
> 
> Ohhhh, I don't do anything consistently.  

:) I'm not sure consistency/popularity is the point here, anyway. If we
were going to call everything by the most popular name people use for
it, we'd be calling the software "Open Source" (In fact, I would suspect
that empirical data on the "Free Software":"Open Source" google ratio
would be similar to that of the "GNU.Linux":"(?<=GNU).Linux" ratio,
although I haven't checked...) It's an attractive argument to call it
what people call it, but may miss the point somewhat, in that we're
trying to educate people about Free Software.

However, in this case we might be able to be a bit more flexible about
things. Having a section on GNU itself would be good, and I think if we
do that then we can refer to the OS as Linux (so long as we mention, at
some point, that GNU/Linux and Linux often refer to the same thing).

> Actually, should we run or support a suppliers' directory?  I'm not sure
> what's out there at present, or rather how they are viewed by people who
> aren't suppliers themselves.

You didn't pay close enough attention to the UK Online/ICT Directory
presentation @ sheffield, then? :)

> > Now back to lurkerdom.
> > 
> > Telsa
> 
> Please excuse me while I go and freak out in the back of the office.  Does
> this mean the listserver will now break?

Funnily enough, my scsi hard-drive suffered a partial failure at around
the same time as Telsa's e-mail dropped into my inbox; you can ask the
guys on irc at the time if you don't believe me :) I now have a few more
bad blocks than I did before...

Cheers,

Alex.

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