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<DIV>>>> Florin Iucha <florin@iucha.net> 10/8/2008 12:12 PM >>><BR>>>On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 11:12:52AM -0500, Troy.A Johnson wrote:<BR>>> With all due respect to my fellow TCLUGers, I have no want <BR>>> to change TCLUG into an all-GNU groupie group. If you do decide<BR>>> to recreate TCLUG in this way, I will try to find another group<BR>>> that:<BR>
<DIV>>Please show more respect than reciting the old cliché and tell us<BR>>which of the three above options changes TCLUG in all-GNU grupie group<BR>>and how?<BR></DIV>
<DIV>RMS says "I'll meet you if you change your name" and some of us seem</DIV>
<DIV>to fall all over ourselves organizing a way to do it. Please excuse me if </DIV>
<DIV>I do not feel this worthy of much respect. Will we be removing the 'GNU' </DIV>
<DIV>if we get an offer from Linus later on? Can we add other prefixes if the </DIV>
<DIV>person requesting them is really, really respected by most people on </DIV>
<DIV>the list? </DIV>
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<DIV>I respect your devotion to RMS and his contribution to the </DIV>
<DIV>world of free software. Where is your respect for people who do not </DIV>
<DIV>agree with you on this topic, and on this list? Out the window, it seems, </DIV>
<DIV>in a rush to slap the GNU label on the whole group.</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>>> 1) Hasn't decided that GPL and LGPL are the "one, no, two true<BR>>> licenses", so much so that they incorporate it into their name.<BR>>What part of the proposal has anything to do with GPL or LGPL?<BR></DIV>
<DIV>Please forgive me. I am sure I am the only person in the universe that</DIV>
<DIV>will recognize any association between GNU and those licenses.</DIV>
<DIV><BR>>> 2) Isn't so obviously and hopelessly devoted to one mans cult <BR>>> of personality. <BR>>Again, there is no proposal (to my knowledge) to change the name to<BR>>"RMS's friends" or its ilk.<BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Again, RMS says jump. So, now we organize a vote for "how high". </DIV>
<DIV>That may not be the way we all see this, but that is how it looks to me.</DIV>
<DIV>*shrug* </DIV>
<DIV>My 2 (or more) cents.</DIV>
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<DIV>Troy</DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>