Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/04/15/07:24:24
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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