Re: New year, new name!

["Felipe López" <felipe.lopez@openmailbox.org>]

On 06/01/15 09:28, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro wrote:
> Em Mon, 05 Jan 2015 09:40:48 -0500
> Felipe López <felipe.lopez@openmailbox.org> escreveu:
> 
>> I still think that calling the Guix distro "GNU" would have been
>> better, and I don't see how calling it "Guixotic - the reference
>> distribution of GNU" is any different from calling it "GNU", since
>> saying "the reference distro" implies the same issues RMS and others
>> saw in calling the distro "GNU".
> 
> I agree.  In fact calling it "GNU's reference distribution" could even
> worsen the problems seen by RMS, because of the explicit goal
> attributed to the distribution of being used as a canonical template.
> To me the purpose of the GNU project is more ethical and symbolic than
> technical: to provide the mythical --- entirely free --- GNU system
> and not necessarily to make a distribution for technical reference.
> IMHO, the GNU project is missing the point.
> 

Yes, I think that most of the GNU people are very technical, so they
tend to think in low-level terms. This, IMHO, makes it more difficult
for the average Jane to know about GNU and its philosophy.


> Needless to say, I'll continue to call it simply "GNU".  I invite
> everyone else to do the same.  Given that the GNU+Linux operating
> system has gotten the wrong name "Linux" by habit and popularity,
> maybe we could make "Guixotic" (or whatever) get the right name "GNU"
> by a similar practice.
> 
> 

I'll do that too when I start distributing and writing about "Guixotic"
where I live.

-- 
Luis Felipe López Acevedo
http://sirgazil.bitbucket.org/

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