Why not call GNU/Sage :) Still, I cannot understand why they insist the name GNU/Linux. There is another software distribution based on Solaris Kernel which they call it Nexenta. http://www.nexenta.org/os . There are many more software that are not labeled with the name GNU, but they feel they should call it with GNU. What if I build a distribution on Linux kernel without any GNU named software? Will it still be GNU/Linux? Now they started another confusion, maybe on right bases but still with poor name choices. Free software definitely will resemble to anyone who don't know the real meaning, as free beer, not free speech. These discussions, maybe from the social perspective, give the incorrectly named free software a reasonable base for advocating their ideals against the open source, I still think this is not a matter of freedom, this is a problem to call it rather Stallman or not. Sorry for those with the opposing ideas, I know this is not 100 per cent related with William's mail, but I quite feel it is important to discuss this... AAP
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 8:45 AM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Antonio Cárdenas <aca...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Professor Stein, >> >> I like Sage, it is a great project. I sent an email to the FSF about listing >> it in the high priority list: >> http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority.html > > Thanks! > >> They agree that Sage is a great and necessary project and they would like to >> add it to the list. They also think that the Sage web page should talk more >> about free software and not only open source. > > Do they have any specific improvements that they would prefer we > should add? I'm not promising anything -- the perspective of the Sage > project is indeed much more "open source" than "free software", though > of course we use the GPL, not BSD, license. > >> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html >> I hope you can consider this. Many people love Sage and being in such list >> will help a lot it further development. >> >> Thanks and best regards >> >> Antonio >> > > > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.org > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
