[IAEP] the SoaS term (was: Press release flurry planning...)

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:28:09PM +0200, David Van Assche wrote:
>Nowhere is there any mention of something distro specific, nor should 
>there be.

Please leave it to each distribution to babtise their work.


>I am actually quite surprised that this discussion is coming up on a 
>mailing list that is very open source based. Taking ownership of a very 
>generic term goes against the philosophy/politics of open source in 
>general.

It is *not* about taking ownership.  Quite the contrary: Feel free to 
babtise your SuSe-based work the exact same as that other work based on 
Fedora.

The fact that I would not recommend you to do so is a different issue.  
What is relevant is that if you did create a different work and called 
it the same as the quite popular Fedora-based work, then I would not 
request Sugarlabs to agree on a set of words to encourage distribution 
makers to use.

Sugarlabs makes Sugar.  And defines terms for what they make.

Let each distribution define terms for their works.

That is freedom.


Kind regards,

  - Jonas

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