GNU/Windows

Mon Apr 15 04:26:00 GMT 2002

Hello cgf,
The idea was from a conversation I had with some co-workers, not
entirely seriously but thank you for your reply setting the facts straight.
Windows has been established as a reasonable generic word IMO, with the
Lindows case this was hinted at reciently.
JG
Christopher Faylor wrote:
 > On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 01:12:56PM +0900, J. Grant wrote:
 >
 >>I agree with your postion on calling a Linux system GNU/Linux. Have you
 >>considered using the name GNU/Windows when refering to machines that use
 >>the RedHat Cygwin UNIX envoroment? This would be good publicity for
 >>the GNU tools that are installed on Windows machines. Also it would make
 >>it well known that many Windows machines use GNU software for shell
 >>scripting and other tasks supported by the Cygwin enviroment.
 >>
 >
 > I don't see how naming is really anyone's decision but Red Hat's. We
 > own Cygwin. Certainly Cygwin owes a lot to the GNU tools from FSF but
 > we are not going to be renaming the distribution because of that. I
 > think it would be confusing to refer to it by two names.
 >
 > Even if that was not the case, we can't use the word "Windows" in this
 > connotation since there are, arguably, trademark issues with doing that.
 > We used to use the term gnu-win32 but were asked to change. I think
 > that part of the reason was that we don't want to use the word "win"
 > with relation to Windows.
 >
 > Finally, to follow your analogy, the name would be GNU/Cygwin anyway,
 > not GNU/Windows. Cygwin is equivalent to Linux in this scenario.
 >
 > cgf
 >
 >
 >
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