On 07/06/16 20:01, Russ Allbery wrote: > Daniel Pocock <[email protected]> writes: > >> Debian has been using the slogan / tag line "The Universal Operating >> System" for as long as I can remember. > >> It is a good choice and it represents the aims of many contributors, but >> is it the optimal choice today? > >> For example, has there ever been discussion about replacing it with a >> slogan that puts an emphasis on freedom, another value that is important >> to many contributors? > > That's always spoken to freedom to me, since something that isn't free > can't be universal. By definition, access to it is restricted in some way > to some blessed set of people, either by money or by some other legal > arrangement, which is the opposite of universal. >
Free may imply universality, but the opposite isn't true. The NSA aims to achieve universal coverage, but does that give people more freedom or less? I'd suggest that universal is a slightly neutral term with respect to freedom.
