[pp.int.general] [Cafe] Joe Biden is an enemy

[Richard M Stallman]

    Obama
    has asked some free software people to write a report on the state of
    free software.

Unfortunately not quite.  He asked for a report on "open source"
(which is very different politically and philosophically from free
software) from Scott McNealy, who is at most partially a supporter
even of "open source".

See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
for more explanation of the difference between free software and open
source.

    Could be, however Obama is a pragmatist - the election campaign used
    Linux and free software

They couldn't use Linux by itself, since that's just a kernel and
would not run by itself in a PC.  Surely what you mean is the
GNU/Linux operating system.

Would you please be so kind as to call it "GNU/Linux", and thus give
the GNU Project, the system's principal developers, a share of the
credit?  For instance, your signature says

 | `. `'    Linux Administration and Free Software Consulting   |

By writing "GNU/Linux" instead, you could treat us right.

See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html for more explanation.