Canonical, Ubuntu, and Why I Seem so Upset About Them All the Time

Re:Canonical, Ubuntu, and Why I Seem so Upset About Them All... by baldfat on Friday February 19, 2016 @08:35AM (#11133328)

Well the whole GNU-Linux kind of sums up the subvert issue :)

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Re:Canonical, Ubuntu, and Why I Seem so Upset About Them All... by ska on Friday February 19, 2016 @10:42AM (#11134078)

I can't see how that matches up with any definition of "subvert" I'm familiar with.

There are reasonable argument pro and con the whole "Gnu Linux" thing, many of them silly and some cogent. But nobody was subverting (or attempting to) anything that I can see.

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Re:Canonical, Ubuntu, and Why I Seem so Upset About Them All... by baldfat on Friday February 19, 2016 @12:34PM (#11134950)

> Sunvert (def) undermine the power and authority

Seemed like it was to undermine Linus and place GNU on the same level as Linux kernel. (hurd) Don't get me wrong RMS is someone I am glad is alive and engaged with the community but I disagree with him most of the time.

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Re:Canonical, Ubuntu, and Why I Seem so Upset About Them All... by ska on Friday February 19, 2016 @01:54PM (#11135619)

  Seemed like it was to undermine Linus and place GNU on the same level as Linux kernel.

I don't agree with your characterization at all, but let's not go over old ground.

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Re:Canonical, Ubuntu, and Why I Seem so Upset About Them All... by dkuntz2 on Friday February 19, 2016 @02:51PM (#11136088)

That's not really the GPL though, that's just because very few people run Linux without also running countless GNU utilities. The people that argue for calling it GNU + Linux don't bring the GPL into it at all.

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