Timeline for Is [GNU] a manufacturer meta tag?
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| Sep 16, 2016 at 16:17 | comment | added | Hastur | @Xalorous "да нет наверное!" :-) One thing is the Project (the GNU Project) another is what produced by the project (the OS). BTW It is true that with GNU it is possible to address the OS, the project, sometime (less properly) the free software and (improperly) the licence (GPL)... but if you listen in the common life that is the tag you expect to find on the site too... Evil? just for "What things an app would do that would make it run with MSDOS and not run with DR-DOS. Is there feature [sic] they have that might get in our way?" AARD. ;) | |
| Sep 16, 2016 at 16:01 | comment | added | Jeter-work | @Hastur and everyone in the Soviet Union was happy, fulfilled and satisfied with their lives before the fall. It's not about how they define themselves, but it is about how we view them. Microsoft, Apple, etc. don't view their product offerings as monolithic and restrictive. Yet they are treated as EvilCorp. | |
| Sep 16, 2016 at 15:44 | comment | added | Hastur | @Xalorous feel you free to disagree, but on the homepage of www.gnu.org it is reported: "GNU is an operating system that is free software—that is, it respects users' freedom" below in the same page "GNU is a Unix-like operating system"... | |
| Sep 15, 2016 at 22:40 | comment | added | Jeter-work | DIsagree that GNU is an operating system. GNU/Linux yes, but not GNU. The GNU project maintains GNU/Linux, and many other software packages and a number of OSes (GNU/BSD, GNU/HURD, GNU/Linux). Are KDE and Apache manufacturers? | |
| Sep 10, 2016 at 5:19 | history | edited | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 6, 2016 at 16:56 | comment | added | Hastur |
@fixer1234 To minimize the abuses and the time spent to fix them after, it is needed to write a good definition of the excerpt and the tag, better to do them in advance... If I correctly remember we just agreed in past on this point... BTW It's a common use even Linux for the OS instead that for the Kernel... The language is alive and sometimes it takes paths that differ from the imposed rules. French Spanish Italian are all witness of this. Cogitamus ergo sumus, or at least we try! :-)
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| Sep 6, 2016 at 16:46 | comment | added | fixer1234 | You hit on a key point, common usage. In a sense, gnu is a manufacturer tag, it's just that in this case, it can serve a useful purpose so it's less meta. The question becomes how to provide the tag benefits and minimize its abuse as meaningless decoration on a lot of questions. That will take some cogitation. | |
| Sep 6, 2016 at 16:28 | history | answered | Hastur | CC BY-SA 3.0 |