Re: [OFFTOPIC] RMS and reactions to him

[Matthew D. Pitts]

> That lesson concerns sharing credit with people who are trying to help
> you.  That's the reason I talk about the work that we, the GNU
> Project, have done, rather than focusing on my individual role.  (I
> don't ask people to name the system after my name.)
> 
> However, letting the credit for our work fall entirely to someone who
> never was part of our project and doesn't share our values and goals
> is a different matter.  That would be self-defeating.  Leadership 101
> doesn't need to talk about this, because even cadet leaders generally
> already know they should not let rival movements take the credit for
> the work they and their supporters have done.
> 
> We do give Torvalds a share of the credit by calling the system
> "GNU/Linux".
> 
Richard, 

I think someone else might have sais this, but I will say it now. Many, if 
not all, Linux distibutions give the GNU Project credit for the utilities 
that were written by it. Is that not sufficient?

Matthew D. Pitts