From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 14 6:59:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 128AE37B743 for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 06:59:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 38821 invoked from network); 14 May 2000 13:59:02 -0000 Received: from sys3.physics.iisc.ernet.in (144.16.71.27) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 14 May 2000 13:59:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 11112 invoked by uid 211); 14 May 2000 13:59:02 -0000 Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 19:29:02 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Anatoly Vorobey Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <20000514192901.B11078@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <20000514010614.A16058@happy.checkpoint.com> <3.0.6.32.20000513180213.00894400@mail85.pair.com> <20000514023000.A16663@happy.checkpoint.com> <20000514051118.M22405@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <391E2C5B.D4EFB077@mail.ptd.net> <20000514093934.10200@techunix.technion.ac.il> <391E5B85.B761FFF6@mindspring.com> <20000514105349.A20904@happy.checkpoint.com> <391E5F5A.A8066271@mindspring.com> <20000514041442.A58200@sasami.jurai.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000514041442.A58200@sasami.jurai.net>; from mellon@pobox.com on Sun, May 14, 2000 at 04:14:42AM -0400 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.0.31 i486 X-Question: Do you enjoy reading pointless headers? Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > I'd rather ask Linus why his ego made him name it Linux and why he is so > > clueless about revision control. > > Go ahead and ask him. Tell us what he said. These are good questions, > too. Actually it's rather wellknown that Linus originally called it Freix or something like that, and it was the administrator of his FTP site in Finland who called it linux. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message