On Monday October 6 2008 11:08:59 Dan Armbrust wrote: > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Smith, Craig A > > <Craig.A.Smith at honeywell.com> wrote: > >>> GNU has indeed made huge contributions to what's on our machines. > >> > >> GNOME, KDE, driver, OpenOffice.org > > > > Don't forget about the listserv we're using. > > Mailman is another GNU GPL project from the FSF. > > Yes, but you are also mixing together projects written by the GNU > developers, with software which is simply GPL licensed. > > For example, GNU shouldn't be given credit for things like KDE and > open office, simply because they choose a license published by the > FSF/GNU folks. Well, in an extended sense, maybe they should. Were it not for the GNU platform there wouldn't be KDE (or Linux, for that matter). -pete, who's still on the fence about the name change, just trying to play devil's advocate -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20081006/389be6c2/attachment.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20081006/389be6c2/attachment.pgp