Name of the system (was: Firefox Mobile + Geeksphone = Awesome)

[Andreas K. Foerster]

Hello,

i think, it would be great if Firefox OS gets adopted.

One aspect, that I don't like however, is the choice of the name.
It uses Linux as it's kernel, and which libc does it use? The GNU libc?
Well, it was always unfortunate that most people don't mentioned GNU.
Now they stop even mentioning "Linux". They call it "Android", "ChomeOS",
"Firefox OS"... whatever.

Even large distros like Ubuntu and even Debian stopped to name it on their
frontpage!

Most people think GNU/Linux is an odd system, because barely anybody uses it,
they think.  However that is not the reality.  GNU/Linux is almost everywhere.
The real problem is not that it is barely used, but that those, who use it,
very often are not aware that they do.

I think, what we really need is, a better "marketing" for GNU/Linux.

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AKFoerster <http://AKFoerster.de/>