El Sun, 20-09-2009 a las 09:33 -0500, Yamandu Ploskonka escribió: > Because of my ignorant ways in interpreting things, which I trust is > also the way of the populace :-), I think the wisest thing is to keep > the SOaS moniker as a basic SLs thing, of course, of course > recognizing Sebastian. I mean, because he sort of "owns" SOaS", I > would say he sort of owns SLs itself, in a way (at least, much more > than people like I)
While Sebastian's contribution to SoaS has been predominant, besides him there are also a bunch of other people who deserve acknowledgment: 207 Sebastian Dziallas 152 Martin Dengler 27 Marco Pesenti Gritti 11 Aleksey Lim 11 Simon Schampijer 9 Daniel Drake This is by counting the number of patches. There are many other possible metrics, some of which may result in a different ranking. Tomeu's proposal to distinguish the distros by fully qualifying them as "Fedora SoaS" or "SUSE SoaS" attempts to be fair, but is not very feasible. It reminds very much of "GNU/Linux": while it's probably more correct, people already got into the habit of saying "Linux", which also happens to be shorter and easier to pronounce. People are naturally inclined to shorten words, not make them longer! Like it or not, at this point SoaS will irreversibly identify the Fedora SoaS. The maintainers of other live USB distros could still call theirs something like "SUSE SoaS", but it would simply sound terrible, wouldn't it? They'd be better off finding an entirely new name such as Live Sugar, Trisquel Sugar, or something more creative. > [...] > > However, I was certain yesterday, and so I am today, that Caroline > would never act as a "squatter", at the very worst she will allow nice > links to be on her page that would get people to SOaSF or SOaSU or > SOaSO or whatever. The http://sugaronastick.com website appears to be designed for end-users who are not technical enough to appreciate the difference between a Fedora, an Ubuntu and a SUSE. I wouldn't complain if Caroline decided to showcase just the SoaS variant that she thinks would work best for her customers, or that it's easier for her to support. It's up to her to decide, because she's the one doing all the work and paying the hosting bill. People behind other USB live distros of Sugar can certainly do the same: register another domain, say SugarLive.com or TrisquelSugar.org, and do good branding. Of course, in a good community all these people would try to work together rather than pointlessly compete with each other. The Sugar Labs Infrastructure Team can offer free disk space and bandwidth to host such a project. Are there any volunteers to do it? -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep