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

Marcin Dalecki (dalecki@cs.net.pl)
Tue, 22 Dec 1998 14:53:40 +0100


Riccardo Facchetti wrote:

> I have _never_ seen a single person using the term GNU/Linux on this
> mailing list, except you.
> And, as a last thing, I'm sure that all the people on this list have much
> respect for GNU and your efforts, past, present and future. Please show a
> bit more respect for Linus and all the other people and their efforts
> to make the linux kernel the best underlying structure (and note here that
> I have not called it an OS knowing your definition of OS) GNU software
> have ever running on: call the linux kernel "Linux" as Linus wanted to
> call it and all the people, at least here, love to call it and not
> "GNU/Linux".

BTW. Linux is a trademark. Therefore i conclude that attaching the GNU/
to it
in the way RMS trys to do is maybe just plain illegal. However I doubt
if
Linus is going to call him into court for this... At leaset he could
make
an end to this.

Marcin

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