[ubuntu-uk] Which magazine

Alan Pope alan at popey.com
Tue Oct 4 09:26:25 UTC 2011


On 4 October 2011 10:05, Tony Travis <a.travis at abdn.ac.uk> wrote:
> I second that, but can we take this opportunity to call it FLOSS instead
> because this more accurately reflects what Ubuntu is about.
>

FLOSS is (in my opinion) the worst of all the labels we give to this
stuff we do. Open Source is good, but not quite right, Free  Software
has too many monetary overtones, and FLOSS just sounds like a dental
campaign. Why don't we called it..

"Ubuntu".

> UKUUG have also rebranded themselves under the FLOSS banner:
>
>  http://www.flossuk.org/
>

I'm still staggered that they did that.

Al.



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