Microsoft/Novell Partnership

[Peter P.]

ted leslie <tleslie at ...> writes:

> just listening to Stallman rant about this on tllts the other day,
> assuming you have a graphics desktop,
> and you judge by lines of code,
> if you buy into Stallman's argument,  should be calling it
> X-11 with a bit of GNU and Linux added in :) 
> or X-gnu-linux
> 
> i have just gotten so use  to calling it Linux, why change now,
> i still call nose tissue ... kleenex, and snowmobiles ... skidoo's

Those would be two very successfully marketed brand names which were
insufficiently defended at the time and are now in the public domain ...

Peter

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