User talk:Genium/2007-2014

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GNU Electric
I must disagree with your renaming of the "Electric (software)" article to "GNU Electric". I also disagree with your rewording of the article to say that it *was* available as free software, implying that it is not anymore.
 * English is not my native language, I may be wrong, in my understanding, "was distributed as free software for many years, and is currently part of the GNU project" do not imply it is not anymore. Correct me if I am wrong. I am sorry, I thought this was a better phrase.
 * About my renaming of the "Electric (software)" article to "GNU Electric", the last source available is explicit: Release of GNU Electric, version 9.01. (Genium (talk) 17:14, 9 October 2011 (UTC))

Electric is available in many forms, including a free source-code download at java.net. GNU is merely one of its incarnations. I do not like to call it "GNU Electric" and unless you can give me good reasons for this change, I will revert them. strubin (talk) 16:53, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Electric is free software, and is an official GNU package. And as all free software, you have the freedom to distribute the source code yourself. No matter where you can find the source code, in many places, the official source is GNU. The same rule apply to all free software. (Genium (talk) 17:14, 9 October 2011 (UTC))
 * Where did you find this wording? strubin (talk) 19:05, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
 * On the official discussion mailing-list. And In the Steven Rubin's own wording as mentioned above, the reference appears in the article. (Genium (talk) 19:40, 9 October 2011 (UTC))
 * Electric has existed for nearly 30 years and was distributed "open source" for a long time before it was offered by GNU. The GNU people like to hear their name mentioned before all of their packages, so I do use that wording sometimes.  Nevertheless, the software is not called "GNU Electric".  That name refers to the reduced version of Electric that GNU hosts.  The proper name of the software is "Electric" and as much as I am happy that GNU hosts it, I do not want the world to think that it was written for GNU, written by GNU people, or that GNU is the only source of this program.  Therefore, I intend to revert your renaming change (unless you are willing to do it). strubin (talk) 00:31, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I respect your decision, so I am reverting my renaming change, and I will do the same for the French entry page. IMHO, this is unfortunate for the GNU project as a whole. Regards. (Genium (talk) 01:16, 10 October 2011 (UTC))

Feature request
It would be nice to have the LSR template on Wikinews. I think that a sort of channel that transclude the latest release infos should be created on Wikinews. We could even put the other data on Wikidata. Please, let me know if this feature exists in the future... ( genium   ✉  ) 11:44, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Talkback
The Anonymouse (talk • contribs) 17:52, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for updating "my" article. I'd surely say I'm more free culture over open source. Much appreciated! SarahStierch (talk) 01:05, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi Sarah ! Could you please update your website at the same time, saying free culture advocate instead of open culture advocate ? Maybe you could share this video around you… There is also some words to avoid . Bises from France, ( genium   ✉  ) 02:28, 13 March 2013 (UTC)