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

2011/8/4 Florian Effenberger <floeff@documentfoundation.org>

> Hello,
Hi Florian


> 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".
>
> I am, as we have a saying in Germany, rather emotionless on this, but I do
> see that many people have concerns with solely using "open source" or
> leaving out the "GNU" prefix.
>
> Shall we aim for achieving a good mixture of both terminologies? Anyone has
> severe concerns on that?
>
> I think the term FOSS, or FLOSS should be acceptable for most people.
Regarding to the terms Linux and GNU/Linux, I think there's a lot of emotion
and misunderstanding on this matter. Whatever the term we use, there will
always be someone unhappy.


> Florian
Cheers


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