Slashdot: Stallman meets KDE team for tea (barf)

Roger Oberholtzer roger
Mon May 17 11:47:08 PDT 2004


I was referring to the GNU compiler suite available from MS. I think they
had some other name for it. GNU is mentioned in the list of goods.

On Mon, 05 May
2003 18:44:35-0400"Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb at charter.net> wrote:

> I was being sarcastic about GNU's desire to have their name on almost
> every piece of software - in fact if it keeps up they will want it on
> everything we write because we used GNU tools and yes -   MS is worried
> about Linux.  They've put out some FUD articles on Linux trying to scare
> people.
> 
> Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 04 May 2003 20:57:15 -0400
> > "Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb at charter.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> Yeah, and if MS uses free software they will want to call it GNU/MS
> ><G>!> What a waste of time and effort.
> > 
> > But what should MS call their GNU compiler distribution? I think they
> > don't mention Linux. Only Unix.

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