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To the
Marketing-List, There has been a lot
of debate about the wording used at the Gnome.org Mock-up. One of these is whether
we should use the term ‘Free Software’ of the more common
‘Open Source’. ‘Free
software’ is the correct term (with the term ‘Free Software’ predating
the term ‘Open-Source’) for the GNOME project according to the
current site and the licence that GNOME uses. To find out a bit
more visit http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html. A note for those of
you that want the wording of ‘Linux’ changed to
‘GNU/Linux’ on the Mock-up homepage, I am considering changing
this, but since the distributions of GNOME are things like: ‘Red Hat
Linux’, ‘Ubuntu Linux’, ‘Tao Linux’ and
‘beatrIX Linux’ I think we should use the term ‘Linux’
as it more common. Btw. There are exceptions like ‘Debian
GNU/Linux’ and ‘BLAG GNU and Linux’ but if I referred to
these as ‘Linux’ you would still know what I mean rather than me
referring to — say — ‘Ubuntu Linux’ as ‘Ubuntu
GNU/Linux’. You may disagree
with me and I am willing to listen to other points of view on any of these
topics or any other problems/suggestions that you may have about the GNOME.org
mock-up. Btw. At the
GNOME.org mock-up the home page uses the terms ‘Free Software’ and ‘Linux’. The
Mock-up — as per its name — is still in the Drafting stage. Thanks, Hugh Buzacott. Reply to address: Hugh Buzacott gmail com If you don’t
know the address of the mock it is at http://www.geocities.com/bzctt/. I
am just moving it from html tables to CSS so it may look a bit odd while I iron
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