On 04/10/11 10:26, Alan Pope wrote:
On 4 October 2011 10:05, Tony Travis<[email protected]> wrote:
I second that, but can we take this opportunity to call it FLOSS instead
because this more accurately reflects what Ubuntu is about.
FLOSS is (in my opinion) the worst of all the labels we give to this
stuff we do. Open Source is good, but not quite right, Free Software
has too many monetary overtones, and FLOSS just sounds like a dental
campaign. Why don't we called it..
"Ubuntu".
UKUUG have also rebranded themselves under the FLOSS banner:
http://www.flossuk.org/
I'm still staggered that they did that.
Hi, Al.
Well, I like it but you can't please all the people all the time :-)
It's interesting to see non-Linux 'Ubuntu' products like Ubuntu Cola
around at events like the Edinburgh Fringe, but 'Ubuntu' isn't an
alternative to FOSS/FLOSS because 'Ubuntu' is about politics:
http://ubuntu.org
It's clear that our favourite Linux distro is part of this political
agenda, but I believe that FOSS/FLOSS is broader than 'Ubuntu' in that
it also reflects intellectual freedom as advocated by the FSF. I think
it is particularly useful to stress the 'Libre' aspect of FLOSS, which
is an explicit statement of intellectual freedom in addition to our
software being 'freely' available for anyone to use. I agree with John's
suggestion about better FOSS reviews. I just suggested FLOSS instead
because this includes the 'Libre' aspect of 'Free' software.
Bye,
Tony.
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