Re: [libreoffice-marketing] website terminology for free software

i agree with tom, how ever i like the GNU&Linux as they are one for me, and 
FOSS - Free open source software is okay and great, libreoffice is a high 
quality product how ever it wont work in my "primery job" since one of our 
accounts develped and manipulted macros that not even the MS devs will 
invent in a dacade or too, all i know it had something to do with dimension 
formulas for calc (Exel)



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-----Original Message----- 
From: Tom Davies
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 11:27 PM
To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] website terminology for free software

Hi :)
+1
Although i prefer it when Gnu is title case rather than shouting.  Also gnu 
is
not divided by linux, they are added together.  So, i tend to prefer 
Gnu&Linux
but i'm probably the only one that has thought about it like that.

"Open Source" is great.  "Free Software" is ok but "Free/OpenSource" is 
messy
and makes people think of those Freeware utilities that clutter up systems 
and
even cause problems or free trials.  The problem is trying to show that
LibreOffice is not "cheap crap".  Oddly people don't think of the word
"priceless".

In England there is a well known phrase "You get what you pay for" meaning 
that
the more expensive something is the better it is and this attitude is deeply
embedded in the English psyche.

Regards from
Tom :)




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From: C. Olofson <c.olofson@gmail.com>
To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Thu, 4 August, 2011 21:57:42
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] website terminology for free software

On 08/04/2011 01:36 PM, Cor Nouws wrote:
> Hi Florian,
>
> Florian Effenberger wrote (04-08-11 21:57)
>
> > I've received a request to change two things on our website, regarding
> > terminology:
> >
> > - Instead of solely using "open source", I was asked that we should also
> > use "free software".
> >
> > - "Linux" should be referred to as "GNU/Linux".
> > [...]
> >
> > Shall we aim for achieving a good mixture of both terminologies? Anyone
> > has severe concerns on that?
>
> Using 'free' along side 'open source' is good anyway, because it adds an 
> extra
> dimension to our message, that is quite easy to understand.
>
> The use of 'GNU' does not add anything that is easy to understand. It's 
> more
> something that people 'in the know' like to see. It might look a bit more 
> weird
> to people that are new. But the change that it hurts is so small, that I do 
> not
> object the use of GNU/Linux.
>
> Cheers,

I agree with Cor on both items.

-Craig

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