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Re: [LI] Message from RMS.



On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 04:43:49AM +0000, Raghavendra Bhat wrote:
> If people in the LSB are now interested in working with the GNU
> Project, that's a good thing.  Starting with this basic willingness to
> cooperate, we may be able to do so.  However, one problem may be hard
> to solve: the LSB is mainly dealing with issues at the operating
> system level--and is therefore in effect calling the GNU operating
> system "Linux".
> 
> Many of you are aware that the GNU Project objects to this.  If you've
> heard about this from other people, you may have heard an inaccurate
> rendition of the reasons why; people who disagree and those who
> support us often oversimplify them.  See
> http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html for the real explanation, if
> you're interested.

This is pure politics and has no place on linux-india. I'll respond to
this on linux-india-general.

	-Arun

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