Re: Changing "Linux" with "GNU/Linux" or "GNU"



On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 11:51 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
> Where the code does the same thing on all systems, there is no need
> for the comments to mention any system by name.  They can just say
> what the code does.  That is simplest.
...
> Rather than trying to guess the motives of anyone in particular, let's
> simply do the right thing.

I just committed to gnome-games a removal of the two references to Linux
from our documentation.

We have no plans to update or otherwise change any code comments to
satisfy political wrangling. To make such an invisible change would be a
further waste of our developers' time.

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