2009/3/9 Noah Slater nslater@tumbolia.org:
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 12:54:09PM +0000, David Gerard wrote:
(I started http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy and helped get it to Wikipedia featured status.)
What's your nick on Wikipedia.
User:David Gerard , oddly enough ;-)
I have previously been involved in the arguments with Chris Cunningham about his endless drive to remove all references to GNU/Linux from Wikipedia. I had presumed that he had made this page as well. Such muddled thinking exists on both sides it seems. I gave up in the end.
There's a thing called the "history" tab which is useful in this context. I separated it out from the main [[Linux]] article (which was an utter mess) in 2004.
There are partisans on all sides. However, the good ones know how to edit neutrally *anyway*. Presuming that anyone who does anything of benefit to a side other than yours is proceeding from malice ... is a fundamental error. That's where the Wikipedia maxim "assume good faith" comes from. You can think of it instead as "assume stupidity rather than malice" if you like ;-)
- d.