Re: Revamped of GNOME.org



On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 13:38 +1000, Hugh Buzacott wrote:
> To the Marketing-List,
> 
>  

> 
> 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.

I am for Free software.



> 
> 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’.
> 


I would just go with Linux instead of GNU/Linux.

Rajiv





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