Well, I just wanted to weigh in on this quickly.

What a wonderful learning curve wikipedia is, and continues to be.

See, recently, I read about a 20 page rant about Linux vs. GNU/Linux in naming convention.  Having been in IT as long as some have been alive, I rarely but did hear the GNU/ part.  (Never pronounced the slash though.  I read that's also expected.)

And likely, the slash, is just as distracting and to me, unsustainable as the rest.

We're all human, so, if let's say you have a Chevrolet Corvette.  If you call it a Corvette, are you disrespecting the GM or Chevrolet name brands?  Isn't there a ton of content from AC Delco?  Still, if you called it a Chevy, you could make people highly wonder, Which One?  Can't call it a GM, even though their money put the whole thing together.  Really, the human way is to shorten the name to something we all relate to and understand, a Corvette.  Immediately brings to mind a vision.

So, along this line, I wish to disagree witht he Free Software Foundation, which seems very much a little too GNU influenced.  Maybe we can easily rename it GNU Software Foundation, and we can go back to debating just how free is free.

Anyway, I digress.  If one wishes to take the body off the Corvette, and return with all original Ferrari (because I can't spell Lamborghini) parts for a body, and adds all the body parts, can he sell the car as a Ferrari?  Nope, that's already been decided long ago.

Can he sell it as a Corvette?  Nope.

Can he sell it as a Corvette, with Ferrari body?  Sure, that's what it is.

And when your hanging with the buds, admiring all the work that a dedicated owner put into it, would you say he has one awesome Ferrari?  No, you wouldn't.  Would you say he has one awesome Corvette.  Maybe.  Would you say he has one awesome Car, or Exotic, easily.  Would you be purposely taking away from the owner's efforts by referring to this awesome creation as a car?  Heck no.

There are plenty of Linux Distributions.  Linux is just the core.  Are some butt ugly to me?  Surely.  Does that make them bad or useless?  Heck no.  Do I refer to them as Linux Distributions?  Nope, unless someone asks me to give them a rhetoric about Linux and its history.  THEN the GNU, X Window System, apache, Ubuntu, Mandriva and Redhat and and all I know are released.

I was just noting, that we use tags here a lot for the blog.  Guess which one I had to add?

Ask me about my Corvette...plenty of great parts, plenty of super suppliers, non of them built a fully working vehicle.  Is there likely a COMP CAMS/CORVETTE.   Probably, somewhere, and I am sure, it is super, in the eyes of its owner and everyone that feasts upon such a creation.

Surf Safe,

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