Re: [Pan-users] Re: OT: GNU/Linux Was: clearing headers?

[Joe Zeff]

On 10/10/2008 Rob wrote:
> If GNU changed the GPL to add "and you must refer to your product as 
> GNU/Productname", you would be right.  But you're comparing two 
> controversial license changes, which definitely have a legal 
> component, to 
> what's essentially a branding campaign in GNU's case.  "Don't forget 
> that 
> what you call Linux is mostly GNU."

I think that what we have here is an attempt to close the barn door 
after the horse is gone.  Yes, it would be nice if everybody gave GNU 
the credit that it deserves, but alas, most Linux users have never heard 
of GNU.  Possibly, if they had made a big enough fuss back at the 
beginning, things would be different, but now, it's too late, just like 
it's too late to start protecting the term Kleenex as a trademark; it's 
become the common name for the product and the company that invented the 
term is just SOL.

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