Ramana Kumar wrote:
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Robert Martinez <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I think you're stirring up everybody becauseyou say things like:
"I wanted to launch GNU anew with the focus being primarily on the
goal of freedom."
But GNU already HAS the primary goal of freedom!
I believe your point is to create a label that transports the
value more clearly.
And i must say i thought about that sometimes, too:
The OSI has a sticker that indicates stuff that is open source
with the green cut open "O".
Nothing like that exists for free software.
But then again you should see that you don't want to "relaunch"
GNU, since GNU is Not Unix, and is a big project.
Ah sorry, I think I was unclear.
When I said "relaunch" I only meant it in an advertising/publicity
sense. The system itself would not be new, and would not have been
written from scratch!
Rather, I think since GNU is so unheard of these days, it could be a
neat trick to "launch" it as a "new" operating system, which looks
like a distribution of "Linux" but is better not for technical reasons
but for moral reasons.
Ummm... you seem to be mixing up a bunch of different things:
- the concept of FOSS
- FOSS Unix Distributions (we have plenty of both FOSS Linux and BSD
distributions, plus a few OpenSolaris varients)
- a "GNU version of Linux" (arguably all, or at least most distributions
of Linux are GNU/Linux, a GNU kernel never really took off)
And then there's really the question of who you're suggesting we market
to, and what you're suggesting we market. Different audiences care
about (or can be brought to care about) different things.
--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
