Debian News and new "About Debian" footer

[Markus-23]

Hi,

I hope I have picked the right mailing list.

First let me say that I'm not a Debian Developer but a Debian user for about 10 years now. I love Debian both for his technical quality and for being one of the few (popular) distributions which shows recpect to the GNU project in his name and talks about free software. As I don't have this opportunity that often: Thank you all for your great work!

But why do I wrote this mail? Reading the Debian news I recognised that you have changed the "About Debian" footer since:
"[23 Sep 2009] First Debian Mini Conference to be held in Taiwan"

In the new footer you started to speak about Open Source: "be one of the largest and most influential open source projects."

I would be happy if Debian would call itsef "one of the largest and most influential Free Software projects" again in the future.

Thanks for reading.

best wishes,
Markus
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[Holger Levsen-2]

Hi,

On Freitag, 9. Oktober 2009, Markus wrote:
> First let me say that I'm not a Debian Developer but a Debian user for
> about 10 years now. I love Debian both for his technical quality and for
> being one of the few (popular) distributions which shows recpect to the GNU
> project in his name and talks about free software. As I don't have this
> opportunity that often: Thank you all for your great work!

Thank you. Though we will start to refer to our distribution as "Debian"
instead of "Debian GNU/Linux" soon, when we'll ship more than one kernel in
our stable release. "Debian GNU/Linux/FreeBSD" would just sound strange :-)

> I would be happy if Debian would call itsef "one of the largest and most
> influential Free Software projects" again in the future.

/me too! (That's actually why I reply.)


regards,
        Holger

[Roger Leigh-5]

On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 05:44:41PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Freitag, 9. Oktober 2009, Markus wrote:
> > First let me say that I'm not a Debian Developer but a Debian user for
> > about 10 years now. I love Debian both for his technical quality and for
> > being one of the few (popular) distributions which shows recpect to the GNU
> > project in his name and talks about free software. As I don't have this
> > opportunity that often: Thank you all for your great work!
>
> Thank you. Though we will start to refer to our distribution as "Debian"
> instead of "Debian GNU/Linux" soon, when we'll ship more than one kernel in
> our stable release. "Debian GNU/Linux/FreeBSD" would just sound strange :-)

What about "Debian GNU" (they are both GNU libc-based are they not)?


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[Markus-23]

Roger Leigh wrote:

>On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 05:44:41PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Freitag, 9. Oktober 2009, Markus wrote:
>> > First let me say that I'm not a Debian Developer but a Debian user for
>> > about 10 years now. I love Debian both for his technical quality and for
>> > being one of the few (popular) distributions which shows recpect to the GNU
>> > project in his name and talks about free software. As I don't have this
>> > opportunity that often: Thank you all for your great work!
>>
>> Thank you. Though we will start to refer to our distribution as "Debian"
>> instead of "Debian GNU/Linux" soon, when we'll ship more than one kernel in
>> our stable release. "Debian GNU/Linux/FreeBSD" would just sound strange :-)

>What about "Debian GNU" (they are both GNU libc-based are they not)?


Or just call the project Debian which provides two distribution: Debian GNU/Linux and Debian GNU/kBSD.

PS: Thanks for your support to call Debian in the footer again a Free Software project.
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[Paul Wise-3]

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Markus <gnufriend@...> wrote:

> I hope I have picked the right mailing list.
...
> In the new footer you started to speak about Open Source: "be one of the largest and most influential open source projects."
>
> I would be happy if Debian would call itsef "one of the largest and most influential Free Software projects" again in the future.

I forwarded your message to the debian-www list and Debian's press officer.

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