[crackmonkey] Replacing SVLUG with a more accurate name (fwd)

[Seth David Schoen]

Chris DiBona writes:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 14:02:25 -0700 (MST)
> From: Richard Stallman <rms at gnu.org>
> To: rick at hugin.imat.com, ockman at penguincomputing.com,
>     dmarti at electriclichen.com, chris at dibona.com, dtm at hex.net
> Subject: Replacing SVLUG with a more accurate name
> 
> SVLUG is an organization of people who use the GNU/Linux system.  It
> would be proper to call it that.  I was going to suggest, during my
> speech, that SVLUG should change its name, but I forgot to.
> 
> The most straightforward idea would be to change the name to SVGLUG,
> the Silicon Valley GNU/Linux Users Group.
> 
> Alternatively, you could extend the group's scope to welcome users of
> other free operating systems, and perhaps call it the Silicon Valley
> Users of Free Operating Systems, the SV UFOS.  Wouldn't it be fun to
> be a UFO?
> 
> I hope you will forward this request to the members, and give
> it serious consideration.
> 
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I said during the ride down that Stallman would probably prefer that SVLUG
be called SVGLUG, and I also mentioned that to several people at the
meeting.  So I beat him to it. :-)

RMS also just wrote to me, in response to my message thanking him,
encouraging me to use "GNU/Linux".  Like Rick, I don't plan to do that,
though I will try to make some more efforts to publicize the FSF.

I will propose to the members of CalFROG that we consider changing the name
to CalUFOS, although I won't recommend that CalLUG change its name.

-- 
   Seth David Schoen L&S '01 (undeclared) / schoen at uclink4.berkeley.edu
He said, "This is what the king who will reign over you will do."  And they
said, "Nay, but we will have a king over us, that we also may be like all the
nations." (1 Sam 8)  http://ishmael.geecs.org/~sigma/   http://www.loyalty.org/
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