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 -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
