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Re: RFC - GNU System Distribution
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John Williams |
Subject: |
Re: RFC - GNU System Distribution |
Date: |
Fri, 29 Jul 2005 13:18:34 +1200 |
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 19:18 -0400, Alaska Subedi wrote:
> > 2. Responders to his idea seem to believe that he is talking about
> > renaming either (1) the community that produces the software, or (2) the
> > "system".
>
> He seems to be talking about renaming the operating system because, to
> him, ``just GNU is confusing".
OK.
> At the top of www.gnu.org, it says ``The GNU Operating System",
True, but usage of GNU says otherwise. In this very thread, someone
signed themself "A proud GNU user" or similar. Then they had to recant:
they use GNU software, but not a/the GNU OS. If someone highly literate
makes that "error" (according to you) what hope have we for the masses?
> > 6. All the above leads me to conclude that we should call it (what Barry
> > is talking about) the "GNU OS". For those with American accents, this
> > of course expands to "(guh) new OS", or "New Operating System". To me
> > GNU is a collection of software that embodies and implements
> > socio-political principles in addition to IT/CS principles. We should
> > distinguish between "a bunch of software" and an operating system.
> You are incorrect. GNU is the name of an operating system; it is at
> version 0.2.
Thanks. Is it available anywhere apart from Alfred's private FTP
site?
Again, I must re-emphasise my point: Barry (and I) are talking from the
point of view of the market for the software, not the producers of the
software.
--
John Williams
Research Analyst
Department of Marketing, Otago University
http://www.commerce.otago.ac.nz/marketing/staff/williamsj.html
- Re: RFC - GNU System Distribution, (continued)
- Re: RFC - GNU System Distribution, Barry deFreese, 2005/07/28
- Re: RFC - GNU System Distribution, Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2005/07/28
- Re: RFC - GNU System Distribution, John Williams, 2005/07/28
- Re: RFC - GNU System Distribution, Alaska Subedi, 2005/07/28
- Re: RFC - GNU System Distribution,
John Williams <=
- Re: RFC - GNU System Distribution, Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2005/07/29
- Re: RFC - GNU System Distribution, Barry deFreese, 2005/07/28
- Re: RFC - GNU System Distribution, Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2005/07/29
- Re: RFC - GNU System Distribution, Anders Breindahl, 2005/07/29
- Re: RFC - GNU System Distribution, Jose E. Marchesi, 2005/07/28
- Re: RFC - GNU System Distribution, Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2005/07/28
- Re: RFC - GNU System Distribution, Jose E. Marchesi, 2005/07/28
- Re: RFC - GNU System Distribution, Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2005/07/28
- Re: RFC - GNU System Distribution, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/07/29
- Re: RFC - GNU System Distribution, Gianluca Guida, 2005/07/29