Fw: Re: [gentoo-dev] License criteria for Gentoo

Fw: Re: [gentoo-dev] License criteria for Gentoo

[Mikko Moilanen]

begin  mistakes, sorry, corrected.

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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 18:59:59 +0300
From: Mikko Moilanen <mikko.moilanen@ty.mikkeliamk.fi>
To: "Kevyn Shortell" <kevyn@mac.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] License criteria for Gentoo


On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 04:37:28 -0700
"Kevyn Shortell" <kevyn@mac.com> wrote:
> done just as much work, to make this distro what it is. Look at it from
> a marketing perspective. It's suicide to take a marketable name, and
> ruin it by adding GNU in front of it. Brand names are marketable because
> they are unique. They are memorable, they have a image associated with
> it. GNU/Linux, Just frankly is the worst marketing plan I've ever heard of.

Oh, I hope that Gentoo will never be so commercial that it will affect in development or naming. !Huh indeed.

> You could sell hair dryers to 60 year old bald men easier than trying to
> market ANYTHING called GNU/Gentoo Linux. In regards to Debian
> using the GNU tag... Debian was probably hoping to get more publicity
> from it, as they were in danger of well, ending up where they are...

Is this marketing some kind of objective in Gentoo? Should't it be developing an Operating System.

> I'd rather quit developing, than bow in to political pressure from RMS

Well, you could then leave this political discussion to me for example. I am very delighteful to see that in Gentoo there is also people which got some passion to these kind of things :D
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Mikko


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Mikko