From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?B?RmVsaXBlIEzDs3Bleg==?= Subject: Re: New year, new name! Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 14:05:13 -0500 Message-ID: <54AC31E9.3070908@openmailbox.org> References: <87egra60mo.fsf@gnu.org> <20150105104320.GA2569@jocasta.intra> <54AAA270.3000006@openmailbox.org> <20150106122821.4cc9d9a0@freedom-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37537) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8ZIi-0001aN-LP for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 13:56:21 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8ZIf-0007Kc-DF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 13:56:20 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20150106122821.4cc9d9a0@freedom-laptop> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: =?UTF-8?B?QnJ1bm8gRsOpbGl4IFJlemVuZGUgUmliZWlybw==?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On 06/01/15 09:28, Bruno F=C3=A9lix Rezende Ribeiro wrote: > Em Mon, 05 Jan 2015 09:40:48 -0500 > Felipe L=C3=B3pez escreveu: >=20 >> 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". >=20 > 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. >=20 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. >=20 >=20 I'll do that too when I start distributing and writing about "Guixotic" where I live. --=20 Luis Felipe L=C3=B3pez Acevedo http://sirgazil.bitbucket.org/ ID Klefo PGP : 0x8A296B99 Marko fingrala: 7ED8 4963 C881 647C 9DA0 FDE6 881B 91ED 8A29 6B99