Hey, thanks a lot for your input, Fabian!
I wasn't aware Trisquel is still mostly one person effort. If he doesn't stay
in contact with the community, who is in contact with you, guys? I wonder.
Are you here by yourself, hanging around, helping with support, promotion and
translation?
I am aware of the recent development in the Debian Project towards freedom.
I've just subscribed to the mailing list pointed out by you. This is one of
the reasons Fundația Ceata financially supports debian.org.ro.
How many Trisquel developers are there? I imagine that Ubuntu is still
different from Debian and not all of them will switch. Plus, while the Debian
Project will probably move to 100% Free Software, the community will not
adopt a Free Software culture over night, I imagine. They have been using the
term GNU/Linux for the Linux-based GNU operating system for some time now,
but the Debian Handbook (recently released) still includes lot of erroneous
references to Linux as operating system (except for the first chapters). And
the Free Software culture is getting even slower to local group members who
act based on their own judgement, I know this for a fact.
I don't see why registering a LibrePlanet in Romania would be a good thing,
providing we already have a Free Software and Free Culture Activist
Foundation, called Fundația Ceata (also present on the LibrePlanet wiki).
LibrePlanet doesn't refer to Free Culture too, it's only about Free Software.
Plus, I oppose to globalization and "localization"; it's not practical to
have a Romania, Moldova, etc local group if there are other countries and
diaspora communities which are speaking Romanian. Ceata (means 'group' in
Romanian and it's a recursive acronym for 'Ceata eliberează artele și
tehnologiile actuale' - en. Ceata eliberates arts and modern technologies)
has its own identity and a 4-year history.
Regarding the trademark, I don't think Rubén will go against a "local" group
of Trisquel users at trisquel.ro. Nobody (not even Canonical, RedHat, etc)
does it. It felt just right to ask for permission. We will take an
independent decision on the Ceata administration mailing list.
Thanks once again, Fabian!
Tiberiu
