Hi :) I'm happy either (any?) way if if it's not my preference. Just hearing mention of it getting "out there" to the wider world, is great :) Regards from Tom :)
________________________________ From: Paulo de Souza Lima <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 5 August, 2011 2:11:09 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] website terminology for free software 2011/8/4 Florian Effenberger <[email protected]> > Hello, > > Hi Florian > I've received a request to change two things on our website, regarding > terminology: > > - Instead of solely using "open source", I was asked that we should also > use "free software". > > - "Linux" should be referred to as "GNU/Linux". > > I am, as we have a saying in Germany, rather emotionless on this, but I do > see that many people have concerns with solely using "open source" or > leaving out the "GNU" prefix. > > Shall we aim for achieving a good mixture of both terminologies? Anyone has > severe concerns on that? > > I think the term FOSS, or FLOSS should be acceptable for most people. Regarding to the terms Linux and GNU/Linux, I think there's a lot of emotion and misunderstanding on this matter. Whatever the term we use, there will always be someone unhappy. > Florian > > Cheers > -- > Florian Effenberger <[email protected]**> > Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation > Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 > Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff > -- Paulo de Souza Lima Técnico em Eletrônica e Administrador http://www.pasl.net.br http://almalivre.wordpress.com Curitiba - PR Linux User #432358 Ubuntu User #28729 "Para que as pessoas conquistem a paz em suas relações, a paz espiritual e a paz entre os povos, é preciso que antes se ganhe a batalha interna das virtudes sobre os defeitos" - Talal Husseini - Filósofo Acropolitano "For people to achieve peace in their relationships, spiritual peace and the peace among people, it's necessary, earlier, to win the internal battle between virtues and defects" - Talal Husseini - Acropolitan Philosopher -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
