Toby Bartels wrote:
This suggests that GNU would be happy with our using the name "GNUpedia" -- and other comments by Jimmy suggest the same. It seems that there are /Wikipedians/, however, who aren't so happy with such a relationship.
Actually, I'm one of them. The GNU people have their own agenda, and we have ours. They quite happily overlap a lot, but we aren't in any sense at all a sub-project of GNU, and so we shouldn't adopt their name.
Another factor here is that the GNU people prefer people to say GNU/Linux rather than just Linux, and the reason is that a huge proportion of the code in Linux, esp. for utilities that are not in the kernel itself, is GNU/FSF code.
There's no parallel here. Almost everything in wikipedia is native wikipedian. And the GNU/FSF people have contributed nothing directly, other than the license and of course the genius concept in the first place. :-)
--Jimbo