[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Add Fedora logo to Sugar

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 12:38:48PM -0500, Luke Faraone wrote:
>On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 12:26, Sebastian Silva <sebastian at fuentelibre.org>wrote:
>
>> 2008/12/6 Luke Faraone <luke at laptop.org>:
>> > On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 12:05, Sebastian Silva <sebastian at fuentelibre.org
>> >
>> > wrote:
>> > Uh, why?
>> >
>> > It is, after all, a installation of RedHat's _Fedora_ OS (albiet with
>> OLPC
>> > modifications).
>>
>> To put it succinctly, actually, fedora is a distribution of GNU+Linux,
>> a free operating system. Specifically, out of GNU+Linux, the "Linux"
>> bit represents less than 1%.
>
>
>This is more of a religious war as well as a matter of preference;

As I see it, Sebastian was describing facts, not preaching religion.

I see no war - the two "camps" coexist peacefully these days. But indeed 
the differing preference in promotion is most probably related to 
different beliefs: Debian as a volunteer organisation believe more (but 
not only) in promoting "Free Software" and thus see no (big) problem in 
aknowledging its main origin (and inventor of that term), whereas Redhat 
as a commercial entity fear that "freedom fight" might scare off 
possible customers so instead favor the more consumer-friendly "Open 
Source" and thus avoids promoting its political left-wing ancestor.

:-)


>RH has chosen the "Linux" branding, while Debian (the only widely 
>popular distro to do so) uses the "GNU/" prefix.

Well, *both* RH and Debian brand themselves, but while Redhat choose to 
only promote the origin of its system _kernel_, Debian promotes origins 
of both its kernels (not just Linux) and (largest) userspace part.


  - Jonas

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