[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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