On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 7:38 AM, David Wagle <david.wagle at gmail.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I wasn't around, but I must say, while RMS is indisputably passionate > (in my opinion overly so) about semantics. I really it beyond the > reach of the believable that he would contact this group out of the > blue and demand a name change . . . > TCGLUG would go good with beer and pizza. Anyway RMS's supposed high-handedness has already been refuted by anecdotal evidence produced by someone who was there when he visited the U of M. In fact RMS is surprisingly approachable, by email at least. He personally answered me when I asked him a question about Emacs and even responded to my (unsolicited) views on the history of copyright. (maybe off-topic) Btw, what could "overly passionate about semantics" possibly mean? I am talking about denotation of course, not connotation. Like every strong writer, RMS is accutely aware that there is no such thing as strict synonymy. Ed > > On 03/20/2014 06:48 AM, Munir Nassar wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 11:11 PM, <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: >>> Again, RMS is the kind of person who contacted our group, and >>> tried to browbeat us into changing our name from The Twin Cities >>> Linux User's Group to The Twin Cities GNU/Linux User's Group. >>> >>> I think we're allowed to laugh at him a bit. >> >> I seem to recall it differently. The way i remember things >> happening is that someone contacted RMS to speak at a TCLUG meeting >> and he would only do it if the LUG changed its name. If only we had >> list archives to consult... >> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List >> - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTKuEzAAoJELWzpBXk2k3w490IAJNCtE8ttsL1yN8re9K520nf > XdrYwK/96554E1oYEybiP9Dt0MOr84sujdX36WHoQd8MQ7mrfLY1qalZbt2blc4R > qLCFG5oVSW/8gAofoOaOrNd4as7HXfNNod+rR8E9NWQXaKlsWvkDbsXXrBskBgGM > nrRL6rGDxcYPZARi7YrEC1Khm0ElsM8YbaPnJgdQRYwU2FexGszO0M15ISiVG2BO > DrnBc7SGbLMM0TjxKehODg2tPrINNRMFT01LZaJtqeFOLNOaqjXONCAV64KCXg+A > zbn6qAO2hE72SpHE1MBR2eXf3D+5tZs1pMWbz0CEm3O33/DfZ2rFelCOCYI4jNU= > =qa9u > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list