It's all a matter of politics and language. GNU and the FSF was started as a political reaction to events that happened in the AI lab at MIT. RMS's idea about the GNU/Linux name is to raise awareness about the role GNU plays in the context of a GNU/Linux system. Language plays an important role...
The precedent is the system that was the Unix OS. The precedent is in RMS's expertise as an operating system author. People combined Linux together with the GNU OS. Other non-GNU software are undoubtedly important contributions to the system. That doesn't change the GNU role as being the core to...
The issue relates to what is the context involved. In RMS's view, "Arch Linux" in the context of the kernel program provided by the Arch team is no problem. "Arch Linux" in the context of a complete system that includes GNU and Linux and others would not give proper credit to GNU. "Ubuntu...
The GNU project is a project to provide a complete free operating system (it was originally intended to be a complete replacement to Unix). Torvalds principally authored the Linux project. Some people had the bright idea of combining the Linux kernel together with the incomplete GNU operating...
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Piracy
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Theft
I direct you to the GNU project's view on this matter. I agree with GNU and RMS: this language is an attempt to associate the act of sharing together as being equivalent to...
I've pre-ordered a batch 2 Pandora in 2010. I've since resided to the fact that I may have to wait a total of 3 or so years to get my Pandora. My money is already in your hands and it's taken me two years of waiting to get to this point so I may as well continue waiting for that special day to...
I am a computer hacker. This is very attractive to me as a hacker as it is:
mobile
a very capable computer
fast processor hardware
networking
full tactile keyboard
various connection points and slots
has enough juice to operate over decent timespan
is highly programmable
All these...