[Ambassadors] Fedora project

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jul 23 17:15:06 UTC 2008


Alejandro Acosta wrote:
> Anyway, I'm working on my presentation and looking through the 
> ambassador's resources I found Rahul's very illustrative and filled with 
> a lot of helpful information [2],  although it does not contain the most 
> recent one. Can anyone help me find the updated numbers? Other useful 
> information will be appreciated also.

I will post an update.

> My second point its a little more complicated since it implies 
> philosophical issues. Mr Stallman explains in his publications that it 
> is not exact to use the word "linux" to refer to an OS or a particular 
> distro since Linux is only the kernel and the rest of the OS is somehow 
> derived from its original work  (bash, editor, compilers, etc). [3] 
>  Question: Do we at Fedora share and honor this principle? Shall we 
> refer to our and other distros as GNU/Linux as he suggests?

Feel free to use it. We officially call it just Fedora and we explain it 
as a Linux based operating system as you can see in http://fedoraproject.org

> I saw the words "open source" a lot along many Fedora presentations, but 
> my doubts still remain. Do we have any policy regarding Open Source 
> and/or Free Software?  It is going to be hard to me to debate about 
> freedom against RMS so I would prefer only to talk about our project, 
> but stating clearly what we stand for.

In the main documents and webpages, we have traditionally preferred to 
use free and open source or FOSS as a term to encompass both movements.

Rahul




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