On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 01:45 +0530, Abhradip mukherjee wrote:
But I am talking about the active community, the contributors, the ambassadors, the openSUSE project's official terminology. openSUSE project should show the support to Free Software Movement by officially calling it GNU/Linux. The ambassadors must refer to it as GNU/Linux in front of future developer meets to inspire them to develop free technology (A nice non-free project for openSUSE wont help free software movement. Opera might be a good example of such kind.).
It's a waste of time. Who cares? Seriously. Who cares? A few people who are extremely radical for "free software" may, but they are outnumbered by the amount of people, even community members who really don't care. It's Linux. It's going to be that way, changing it to GNU/Linux has never worked, and there's no reason in wasting time correcting people about GNU/Linux, especially when we've got so many people spelling "openSUSE" wrong.
then you're going back on the goal of all of us: to get openSUSE (and thus open source software) into the hands of as many people as possible.
Good logic, but who told you that people will run away from it if they hear it is GNU/Linux or a free software instead of just linux and open source software
First: the only difference that I can tell between "free software" and "open source" is that "free software" is a philosophy and "open source" is a technical description. And I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm not into selling people into philosophies when it comes to computer software. I save that for my other job at a political organization. Second: it's not about scaring people away because of the name, it's about wasting time worrying about this. -- Kevin "Yeaux" Dupuy openSUSE Member & Ambassador Baton Rouge & New Orleans, LA www.twitter.com/KevinDupuy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org