On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 11:49:29PM +0100, Thom May wrote: > * Thomas Bushnell, BSG (tb@becket.net) wrote : > > Thom May <thom@debian.org> writes: > > > > > Release announcements are advertising. They need to be: > > > informative, easy for the average person to read and comprehend, and easy > > > for people to espouse and popularise. > > > > Um, so I'm proposing having more information. Indeed, one of the most > more information != more informative. > > important things we have to advertise is our politics and our ethics! > > For a lot of users, politics is a distant second to our > _technical_ achievements, which is what a release announcement needs to > (and does, it's excellently written) highlight. > If we don't attract users to our Debian GNU/Linux, then they go to Red Hat > and whoever else who explicitly _don't_ call their system GNU/Linux. Debian calls it GNU/Linux. I don't see why somebody would use another distribution just because of that. The fact that they aren't used to the term is just one more reason to explicitly call it GNU/Linux. People know Linux, I don't think they get confused. They might wonder what GNU is however and they might end up at the GNU website reading about software freedom. I don't see anything bad with that. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
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