Re: [Mingw-users] Setting the time zone

[Tor L. <tm...@ik...>]

 > > (Don't assume the "gnuwin32" name means "GNU on Win32", they
 > > aren't as far as I know in any way affiliated with the FSF, and
 > > most of what they provide has nothing to do with the FSF or GNU).

Kees Zeelenberg writes:
 > True, although all packages are from the Free Software Directory
 > maintained by the FSF,

Maybe, but that's just a directory. Zlib and tiff, for instance, have
nothing to do with the FSF.

BTW, don't think I'm critical to the gnuwin32 project, on the
contrary, I use your stuff all the time and heartily recommend
it. Just the choice of name is a bit odd.

 > BTW, in the same way as this is true for GnuWin32, Mingw
 > (Minimalist GNU for Windows) has nothing to do with GNU,

Huh? GCC and GNU libtools are the main ingredients in mingw.

With hindsight, mingw's name is a bit odd too, though. The phrase
"Minimalistic GNU for Windows" doesn't really correspond to what mingw
is. Someone should invent a better expansion for "mingw"...

(Remember that in the beginning, "GNU" was the name of FSF's operating
system, and all the GNU utilities were originaly written mainly to run
on GNU, although they of course ran also on most if not all Unixes
then and since, and lots of them nowadays also on Windows. Well, FSF's
operating system development proceeded very slowly, and then Linux
appeared and took the world by storm. BSD is also still very much
alive in several versions, but the GNU OS (Hurd) is still very
marginal.)

 > Gimp (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is, it seems, not affiliated
 > to GNU or the FSF ;)

GIMP originally stood for General Image Manipulation Program (see
http://www.gimp.org/about/ancient_history.html) Later the G was
changed to stand for GNU. I am quite certain this wasn't done without
the FSF's approval.

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