[ILUG] Renaming the ILUG

[David Murphy]

Quoting <200003091117.LAA32402 at dagda.tuatha.org>
by Colm Buckley <colm at tuatha.org>:

> 
> Hmm.
> 
> I think that renaming/redefining the ILUG to "broaden our focus" would
> *not* be a good idea.  Whatever our individual interests, it is the
> Linux operating system which brings us together; our interest in it, its
> capabilities and its promotion.  Broadening our base means lessening our
> focus.

Not to mention the fact that frank discussions of the comparitive
merits of Free OSes (say, as a random example, OOM handling in FreeBSD
v Linux) would be on-topic, and we saw how popular that discussion was
8)

This is a group of people interested in Linux, and it's foolish to
pretend otherwise. By all means, refine the terminology to GNU/Linux
if you're convinced it's appropriate, but don't try to pretend you
(plural) is are something you (plural) are not.

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