Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux

Richard Stallman (rms@gnu.org)
Tue, 22 Dec 1998 02:07:18 -0700 (MST)


As far as I can tell, your insistance on everybody using the term
"GNU/Linux" is because YOU want to enslave all of us into YOUR
organisation.

I ask people to use the term "GNU/Linux", in order to help inform
other people about the history of the operating system in question.
Many people think that the development of the system as a whole
started in 1991, when Linux was written. Actually it was started in
1984 by the GNU project.

If you talk with the people who use the term "GNU/Linux", you'll find
that I actually have no power over them; I can't force them to do
anything. I wouldn't want to, even if I could. I can only point out
the facts, and ask people to act accordingly. Then they make their
own decisions.

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