<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/7/23 Alejandro Acosta <<a href="mailto:aacosta@fedoraproject.org">aacosta@fedoraproject.org</a>>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">Hello Ambassador folks<br><br>I've been invited to participate at a little event in my Hometown State University [1] this October , the main focus of the event would be free software and I'm supposed to speak about the Fedora project. along other participants including Richard Stallman !!!!. Personally I feel very honored to share the same forum with Mr Stallman and when people ask me I always answer that it is just as if you're learning to play piano and someone asks you to perform along Mozart.<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>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?<br>
<br>Other thing that confuses me is that Stallman states that open source is a motto of a movement that was formed as a reaction against the free software movement.[4] He even says that he refuses to participates in "open source" or "linux" events but he's willing to participate in events denominated "Free Software and Open Source? " or so as long as his speech is not the main focus of the event.<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>It is not my intention to start an even bigger internal debate within our strong and happy community but it is to get some help in getting me clarify these question.<br><br><br>Regards<br><br>Alejandro Acosta<br>Fedora Ambassador<br>
Chihuahua, Mexico<br><br><br>PS The official name and dates of the event are not yet defined so this is why I have not posted it in the events wiki, I hope I'll receive confirmation within a few days<br><br><br><br>[1] <a href="http://www.uach.mx" target="_blank">http://www.uach.mx</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Image:Presentations_Fedora_overview.pdf" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Image:Presentations_Fedora_overview.pdf</a><br>[3] <a href="http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html" target="_blank">http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html</a><br>
[4] <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html" target="_blank">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html</a> <br></div>
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<br></blockquote></div><br>Congrats on your speech!<br><br>Regarding the Linux vs GNU/Linux debate, I recently wrote an article on Fedora Mexico[1] about that titled "My name is Linux. GNU/Linux". [2] (Links are in Spanish)<br>
<br>Personally, I like to call it GNU/Linux because it tells people the philosophy behind our project, but I don't know Fedora's official policy towards the name. <br><br><br>[1] <a href="http://proyectofedora.org/mexico/">http://proyectofedora.org/mexico/</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://proyectofedora.org/mexico/2008/07/17/mi-nombre-es-linux-gnulinux/">http://proyectofedora.org/mexico/2008/07/17/mi-nombre-es-linux-gnulinux/</a><br clear="all"><br>Kind Regards<br>-- <br>Ing. Juan M. Rodriguez Moreno<br>
Desarrollador de Sistemas Abiertos<br>Sitio: <a href="http://proyectofedora.org/mexico">http://proyectofedora.org/mexico</a>
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