Re: Are the FSF helpful?

[Artur Grabowski <art@blahonga.org>]

"Bert de Jong" <brrrrrrt@xs4all.nl> writes:

> Personally, I've never liked people going on about having to use the name
> GNU/Linux if you mean GNU/Linux instead of just Linux.
> 
> I can understand your point that people should be more aware of GNU and
> the FSF (I agree), and I can also understand Richard Stallman and his
> constant wheening over people who call 'his' software Linux; it's not nice
> if someone puts so much effort in software only to see people use the
> 'wrong' name for it all the time.

It's free software. If I want I can take emacs and call it "christmas_tree"
and that would be legal. It would probably be very annoying to type
all those letters every time I wanted to do some small changes in a file
though.

If RMS doesn't want his software to be free, he can just add a line to
the GPL that says "you are not allowed to use this code in software
with a different name". I'm sure that people who use the GPL would
love it.

//art