Re: My Linux is not your Linux

[David Kastrup]

<aquila.deus@gmail.com> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
>> yarmfelder@yahoo.com writes:
>>
>> > My Linux is not your Linux. It is the human Linux
>> > that acknowledges that Linux involves human work
>> > to create, that although it is free you are not
>> > entitled to it, that although it is created in large part
>> > by volunteers, they deserve to be paid for their
>> > gifts with at least gratitude.
>>
>> You can start by calling your complete system GNU/Linux.  That would
>> show respect towards the project responsible for fundamental
>> components such as compiler, central libraries and text and file
>> utilities.
>
> But not for the editor (vim, not emacs :) and xorg. The name would
> be too long then :-)

If you find the "GNU" unappealing, you can of course choose to
exorcise it the hard way, like the maintainer of
<URL:http://www.skarnet.org/poweredby.html> tries.  If you use the
utilities from BSD, you should get close.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum