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Originally Posted by Augi
Just for the record again:
I think people that would find this to be a controversy are those that do spend their time maintaining the GNU/Linux. The same goes for anyone that writes freeware code. It is your intellectual "property," and you want people to call it what it is meant to be called.
While a stretch, I think the same can be said of people that take offense to being called Mister after spending eight to twelve years of their life to be called Doctor. In a casual setting one might let something like that pass, in a professional setting, I highly doubt such a reference would be acceptable.
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Do you confuse freeware with free software?
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-....html#Freeware
BTW, it is a controversy and many agrees:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Lin...ng_controversy