On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 09:54:06PM -0600, Ken Fuchs wrote: > Dan Rue wrote: > > >On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:30:28AM -0600, Chris Smith wrote: > >> the Guh-Nome part i was pretty sure about, though that is helpful. > >> > >> I remember reading about it in some Linux mag. Stallman basically said > >> anything starting with gnu should be GUH-NU-whatever. > >> hard to do though, espcially around casual linux users... they look at > >> you funny, and you feel compelled to explain, and then you end up > >> looking like a bit of jerk.. (at least i seem to...) > >> > >> Oh, and Suse,,, that one is like Dr. Suess, not Suzy.... since we are > >> expanding the list. > > >I personally think that in the spirit of open source and > >there's-more-than-one-way-to-do-it, pronunciation should be an open > >sport. Nobody cares what Stallman says, anyway (ain't no way i'm saying > >Guh-Nome). > > "Nobody cares what Stallman says" is equivalent to > "Everyone doesn't care what Stallman says". > > Sorry, Dan, you don't speak for everyone. Some people do care what > Stallman says. Stallman and GNU software are the main supporters of > free software and in large part the reason open source exists the way > it does today. Without Stallman's decades of work and the GNU project > there wouldn't be any free software or open source software (at least to > the extent and with the freedom that such software exists today). > > Dan, your phonetic spelling of GNOME looks good to me. Is it really > that hard to pronounce or too funny sounding. How do you pronounce GNU? > GUH-NU? Or do you pronounce it with the G silent? GNU is pronounced NU > (new) and GNOME is pronounced NOME (as in the northernmost town in > Alaska)? Ok, I was trying to be light hearted about it. I originally debated whether to qualify my stallman criticism, and just decided against it. Yes Stallman has done a remarkable job for free/oss. Yes we all owe him much. But, that doesn't exempt him from criticism. For what it's worth, I say lin-ucks, G-N-U (i never say guh-nu), nome, v-i - but my favorite thing to say is FreeBSD. And I would never correct someone's pronunciation unless they asked, because I do believe that would be rude and elitist. Dan