Re: [OSS] Re: Fwd: Second OSS Conference - Follow Up

As far as I understand, the "VietKey Linux" seems to be a minimum distro
(one CD). I am not sure how many of the GNU tools they included.

I think I see a common misunderstanding here--many people think that
GNU is a set of tools. GNU is an operating system; the programs we
wrote for it include tools, but not all of them are tools. See
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#tools.

If you
want to be really fair, then they'd probably have to call it "VietKey
GNU/Linux/OpenOffice/Mozilla/..."

If you don't seriously want to use such a long name, it is a straw
man. See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#many.

Among the reasonably short names, GNU/Linux is best. But if even
GNU/Linux is too long for you, then you should call the system "GNU".
That's more accurate, more fair, and shorter than "Linux".

See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#justgnu.

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