[Ambassadors] Fedora project

[Juan M. Rodriguez]

2008/7/23 Alejandro Acosta <aacosta at fedoraproject.org>:

> Hello Ambassador folks
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Alejandro Acosta
> Fedora Ambassador
> Chihuahua, Mexico
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
> [1] http://www.uach.mx
> [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Image:Presentations_Fedora_overview.pdf
> [3] http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html
> [4] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html
>
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Congrats on your speech!

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)

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.


[1] http://proyectofedora.org/mexico/
[2] http://proyectofedora.org/mexico/2008/07/17/mi-nombre-es-linux-gnulinux/

Kind Regards
-- 
Ing. Juan M. Rodriguez Moreno
Desarrollador de Sistemas Abiertos
Sitio: http://proyectofedora.org/mexico
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