Re: [gentoo-dev] Proper Gentoo Name (was License criteria for Gentoo)

[Mark Bainter <mark-gt@cymry.org>]

Greg Corcoran [gregc@spidex.com] wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 04:35, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> > To take this into the car analogies.
> > 
> > The car called Linux or Gnu linux
> > Engine: made by Linus Torvalds & co. branded linux
> > Gearbox: made by FSF branded glibc
> > and so on with other pieces ...
> 
> Excellent points!
> 
> This means that the Integrators (the Gentoo developers) are really
> building the OS from parts from different suppliers.
> 
> These parts are put together as defined by the "system" profile. This is
> the base OS.
> 
> QED the proper name is:
> 
> Gentoo(TM) OS

Actually, to take your point all the way, the proper name
is whatever the hell they want to call it.   Gentoo, 
Gentoo Linux, or whatever else one might come up with.

As long as I'm posting on this again, I'd like to comment
on the earlier posts that "all this is over two lines".  
It's not.  Those two lines carry with it everything he's
said about this topic in other forums.  Including his 
abrasive insistance that anyone he does an interview 
with call it GNU/linux while talking to him, and his
posts on other mailing lists and forums and the GNU 
website about this same topic.  

That post was not made in a vacuum.