If you have to hector people into using your terms, then you've already lost. Not that it makes any sense. Are we going to add every organisation involved to the name? Why is GNU special? If they want attribution they should have put it in their licence.<p>The name really doesn't matter. If you think that publicity and fame is important maybe you should be in show business, not OSS.
There's a funny tyler1 quote (popular LoL streamer) about how oftentimes he meets fans and they'll say something like "Haha remember that time I won this game against you doing this?" He responds absolutely not, you will always remember that game as the one time you won against someone famous, for me it was like any other day being famous.<p>Seeing an entire thread of people not just being petty, but dogpiling onto a five minute conversation that happened in 2001 gives me the same sort of feeling. There is absolutely no way RMS remembers or cares about this one dude giggling to himself over this !GNU operating system.<p>It would be much funnier if Twitter wasn't completely incapable of chilling for five seconds.
> Eventually RMS said something like "Okay, well, you proved a point. However, this is a pretty rare occurrence; on practically all machines, the GNU system..."<p>I mean, cool story/heckle aside, RMS wasn't exactly wrong here ... heck the guy even admitted himself he had a hard time working around the "no gnu" requirement, and had to bootstrap his own tools to make it happen.<p>Also I get the whole "FSF are dicks for punishing sr.ht for saying Linux - Linux is not always GNU" sentiment, but even disregarding the earlier point, FSF is pretty clear in their criteria here, and it's not about labelling all linuxes as GNU/linux:<p>> Avoids saying “Linux” without “GNU” when referring to GNU/Linux<p>Whether you agree or not with that rule being useful, I'd say in terms of criticising sourcehut's wording, then that's pretty accurate criticism. I don't think the rule was misapplied here.
It must be frustrating for RMS that his dream of a free software OS was realised in the form of "Linux", but I'm pretty sure that one of the freedoms that flow from a free software license like the GPL is the freedom to call the software whatever you like. Thus I'm free to distribute an operating system that contains a tonne of GNU software and then put the name Linux on it, and the license allows me to do that. If RMS had realised that the name was so important, maybe he would have added a restrictive naming clause to the GPL.
He was interviewed by Alex Jones in 2012 who dared to say "Linux", too :-)<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwz_vMdxmDU&t=669s" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwz_vMdxmDU&t=669s</a>
I find this an incredibly odd thing to be so pedantic about. If your mission is truly free and open software, then it's kind of at odds that you would be such a stickler about what people are calling it.
What a great story.<p>I remember being annoyed as well by the GNU/Linux thing.<p>All that preaching (was RHS the original SJW?) pushed me to experiment with BSD.<p>I also enjoy using Alpine quite a bit (even if it might have some GNU packages)