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

[Chris DiBona]

Yeah we won't be doing it either.

 Chris Dibona , VP of SVGLUG sounds dumb.

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On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Seth David Schoen wrote:

> 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
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