On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, David.Comay at Sun.COM wrote:
>> We should really find a better name than Freeware, which is not
>> necessarily accurate (the term is usually used to refer to price
>> rather than freedom[0[) and would not in any case be unique since the
>> entire community is built around Free Software.  I might suggest a
>> more ambitious name such as External Software Integration.
>
> Or to be a bit specific, "External Open Source Integration".
>
>>>     3.3  Re-classify the following communities as projects:
>> ...
>>>             - 'GNU Solaris' endorsed by Freeware
>> ...
>>>             - 'Solaris Volume Manager' renamed to 'Volume Manager' and
>>>                     endorsed by Storage
>> 
>> One of the few agreements that's arisen from the naming thread is that
>> Solaris doesn't belong in any project's name (and sec. 7.4's
>> requirement #2 prohibits its use in a Community Group name).  As a
>> Group name, "GNU Solaris" falls doubly afoul of 7.4, but even as a
>> project it would need a new name.
>
> Perhaps "GNU User-land"?

Or "F/OSS User-land", or "F/OSS Ports".

Eric

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