Add one more vote please: [X] No change (Twin Cities Linux User Group) -> TCLUG [ ] Twin Cities GNU/Linux User Group -> TCLUG [ ] Twin Cities GNU/Linux User Group -> TCGLUG Thanks. Paul On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 6:31 AM, Jima <jima at beer.tclug.org> wrote: > swede wrote: >> And not that it will change my vote, but if it becomes TCGLUG will I >> still be able to ask questions about non GNU software and expect a >> polite answer? > > Wait, are you implying that you're gotten polite answers here before? > Are we talking about the same mailing list? > > Joking aside, people have always (for varying definitions of "always") > asked "off-topic" (that is, non-Linux-related) questions, with various > amounts of politeness coming back to them. Defining our list/group as a > GNU/Linux-centric list doesn't, to me, exclude non-GNU software from our > discussions. It just serves as a reminder/acknowledgment of where a lot > of the "Linux" core (like, say, coreutils!) originates from. > And even if it did exclude non-GNU software somehow, hell, people have > asked Windows questions on this list and lived to see the next day. > > (FWIW, my general test for "is this off-topic software?" has always > been "will it compile under Linux?" Although I should probably say > GNU/Linux there, because I think we all know where GCC comes from.) > > Jima > > who's not looking to start a tangent on ICC > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >