[Ilugc] why it is important to promote linux
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- Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 14:46:55 +0530
Similarly hardware companies that ship machines with linux are persuaded
to use terms like 'we ship with ubuntu' or 'we ship with android' rather
than say 'we ship with linux'.
I will not go into how the distros that disown Linux also fail to
contribute back to the community ... this is too well known.
So let us promote - and encourage others to promote - Linux (or, if you
so desire GNU/Linux.
In my opinion, fragmenting the Linux brand as Ubuntu or Android or other
brands is a good thing. For long, one person has embezzled the credit
for the work of the entire community.
GNU has contributed the most to the base system. But it should be
mentioned that, the most commonly used softwares such as email clients,
web browsers, web servers, multimedia editing/viewing, gaming, GUI shell
(kde) and so on are contributed by a vast and diverse section of the
community.
Even though, I support RMS on GNU/Linux name, to fully represent the end
product, the name should be totally random or a representation of the
community as a whole.
I would say promote Linux as a product but not as a brand.
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