[Computerbank] RE: [cai-vic] Policy stick is out

Julien Goodwin jgoodwin at chriskaine.com.au
Fri Nov 29 08:03:01 UTC 2002


----- Original Message -----
From: "Kylie Davies" <mailkylie at optushome.com.au>
To: <computerbank at lists.linux.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 10:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Computerbank] RE: [cai-vic] Policy stick is out


> > What policies (if any) are missing from the GNU Volunteers Guide
(actually,
> > come to think of it, what does GNU strictly mean?
>
> Hmmm...well i guess in this context it is used as it sounds. However the
real
> meaning is recursive; GNU's Not Unix. Its also an animal.
>
> The GNU part will probably go because many people may "diss" using that
> reference because it is "holy" or somesuch. :) What do people think?
Should
> it change?
My view is that since we are not a GNU project (As in a project started by
the FSF) we shouldn't be using the name to describe ourselves, (at least
until we could get approval from the FSF/GNU)

Julien



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