Fedora Freedom?
Thorsten Leemhuis
fedora at leemhuis.info
Wed Dec 6 09:10:14 UTC 2006
seth vidal schrieb:
> On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 00:37 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
>> On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 00:13 -0500, Warren Togami wrote:
>>> Oh come on. This can't be anywhere near as pretentious as "Masters of
>>> the Universe" used by Ubuntu.
>> At least that's funny and makes me think of He-Man and other things.
>>> Fedora is one of the last remaining major defenders of Freedom in FOSS.
>>> - Ubuntu ships GPL violating proprietary kernel drivers.
>>> - Novell sold their soul to the devil and betrayed the community.
>>>
>>> The Fedora collection contains everything that is free as in liberty.
>>> It is comprised of freedom. So why not call it that?
>> I just think it sounds way too pretentious and self-righteous. Fedora is
>> also about cool things and making the computing experience more fun and
>> enjoyable. Calling it "Fedora Freedom" makes me think of chores and all
>> the homework I neglected to do. Sorry.
> +1. It's pretentious and silly.
+1
> just call it fedora, move along. It's not like anyone else is going to
> refer to it any differently.
I still don't like the plain "Fedora" variant.
BTW, why don't we simply continue to call the package-universe "Fedora
Core" (with the difference that it's now located in the Fedora Extras
framework and the Extras Packages are now to be found under the name
Core, too)?
> [...]
CU
thl
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