-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 12:38:48PM -0500, Luke Faraone wrote: >On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 12:26, Sebastian Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> 2008/12/6 Luke Faraone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 12:05, Sebastian Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >> > wrote: >> > Uh, why? >> > >> > It is, after all, a installation of RedHat's _Fedora_ OS (albiet with >> OLPC >> > modifications). >> >> To put it succinctly, actually, fedora is a distribution of GNU+Linux, >> a free operating system. Specifically, out of GNU+Linux, the "Linux" >> bit represents less than 1%. > > >This is more of a religious war as well as a matter of preference;
As I see it, Sebastian was describing facts, not preaching religion. I see no war - the two "camps" coexist peacefully these days. But indeed the differing preference in promotion is most probably related to different beliefs: Debian as a volunteer organisation believe more (but not only) in promoting "Free Software" and thus see no (big) problem in aknowledging its main origin (and inventor of that term), whereas Redhat as a commercial entity fear that "freedom fight" might scare off possible customers so instead favor the more consumer-friendly "Open Source" and thus avoids promoting its political left-wing ancestor. :-) >RH has chosen the "Linux" branding, while Debian (the only widely >popular distro to do so) uses the "GNU/" prefix. Well, *both* RH and Debian brand themselves, but while Redhat choose to only promote the origin of its system _kernel_, Debian promotes origins of both its kernels (not just Linux) and (largest) userspace part. - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkk6yvAACgkQn7DbMsAkQLhRcACfROKZpHQNKLy/qC1ea6aTjtEK pygAn09/xJdEMUT1jNTDScwfIViTv30J =h3VP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
