From: Christopher Faylor <cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: jg@jguk.org
Subject: Re: GNU/Windows
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 08:31:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020415152605.GC6372@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CBAB7EB.3090801@jguk.org>
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 08:22:19PM +0900, J. Grant wrote:
>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.
So, sending this email RMS was a joke, then? Are you guys personal
friends who enjoy a good laugh? Or did you just forge the header?
>Windows has been established as a reasonable generic word IMO, with the
>Lindows case this was hinted at reciently.
You're aware of what the term "arguably" means, right?
cgf
>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.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-15 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-14 21:29 GNU/Windows J. Grant
2002-04-14 21:48 ` GNU/Windows Christopher Faylor
2002-04-14 21:56 ` GNU/Windows Roland Glenn McIntosh
2002-04-15 0:33 ` GNU/Windows Ryan T. Sammartino
2002-04-15 4:26 ` GNU/Windows J. Grant
2002-04-15 5:55 ` GNU/Windows Tim Prince
2002-04-15 8:31 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2002-04-15 8:33 ` GNU/Windows Chris Tooley
2002-04-15 21:14 ` GNU/Windows J. Grant
2002-04-15 1:27 ` GNU/Windows Elmar Haneke
2002-04-15 12:19 ` GNU/Windows Warren Postma
2002-04-15 12:20 ` GNU/Windows Roberto J Dohnert
2002-04-16 14:02 ` GNU/Windows Richard Stallman
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