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“Freedom, Friends, Features, First”
「自由。朋友。優異。第一。」 四大基石是指 Fedora 社群的核心價值；想法源自於 Fedora 行銷計劃的成果，取代舊有的「無限、自由、聲音」（ininity、freedom、voice）口號。原本的口號是由 Fedora logo 標誌 發想而來。該標誌雖已成為強而有力的 Fedora 品牌與印象的一部分，但尚不足以清晰且有效描述我們的核心價值。 該圖示是由 Máirín Duffy 與 Fedora 設計團隊 一同構思與創作的。 |
Freedom 自由
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自由 代表的是投身於自由軟體與自由內容。我們認為 Fedora 專案 的中心目標是應該去使用、並散布我們所提倡的軟體還有內容，來達成我們讓自由軟體向前邁進的任務。藉由提供專有軟體程式代碼、以及專有授權內容的自由替代品，我們可以改善自由與開源軟體和內容的整體狀態，並且限制住專案中受專有授權或專利妨礙之程式代碼的作用範圍。有時候這個目標會讓我們無法直接將專有授權或受專利妨礙的軟體納入 Fedora 中， Sometimes this goal prevents us from taking the easy way out by including proprietary or patent encumbered software in Fedora, or using those kinds of products in our other project work. But by concentrating on the free software and content we provide and promote, the end result is that we are able to provide: releases that are predictable and 100% legally redistributable for everyone; innovation in free and open source software that can equal or exceed closed source or proprietary solutions; and, a completely free project that anyone can emulate or copy in whole or in part for their own purposes.
我們相信我們應該使用、並散布我們所提倡的軟體還有內容，來達成我們讓自由軟體向前邁進的任務。我們提供專有軟體與內容的自由版替代品，使 Fedora 完全自由，並且讓每個人都能再度將它散布給其他人。這樣一來，任何人都能將我們的成果用於他們所想要的用途上，不必擔心法律問題，甚至能夠進一步傳遞自由軟體。 |
Friends
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Friends represents the strength of our community. The Fedora community is made up of people from all walks of life, working together to advance free software. There is a place in Fedora for anyone who wants to help, regardless of technical skill level, as long as they believe in our core values. Like any friends, we occasionally disagree on details, but we believe in finding an acceptable consensus to serve the interests of advancing free software. We believe in a strong partnership between Red Hat and our enormous volunteer community, since they both provide essential contributions that help the Fedora Project succeed. |
Features
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Features represents our commitment to excellence. The Fedora community creates many of the technical features that have made Linux powerful, flexible, and usable for a wide spectrum of millions of users, administrators, and developers worldwide. We recognize the status quo is worth changing when the potential gain is to empower additional end-users, or create a more flexible and powerful environment for building new solutions on the free software we provide. We also believe that these changes are best developed in direct concert with the upstream software communities whose work is part of the Fedora distribution. We work with the upstream in cases where we find opportunities for improvement, so all free software users benefit -- regardless of their distribution of choice. Our feature development is always done openly and transparently, and anyone may participate. |
First
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First represents our commitment to innovation. We are not content to let others do all the heavy lifting on our behalf; we provide the latest in stable and robust, useful, and powerful free software in our Fedora distribution. An examination of the latest Fedora platform at any point in time shows the future direction of the operating system as it is experienced by everyone from the home desktop user to the enterprise business customer. Our rapid release cycle is a major enabling factor in our ability to innovate. We recognize that there is also a place for long-term stability in the Linux ecosystem, and that there are a variety of community-oriented and business-oriented Linux distributions available to serve that need. However, the Fedora Project's goal of advancing free software dictates that the Fedora Project itself pursue a strategy that preserves the forward momentum of our technical, collateral, and community-building progress. Fedora always aims to provide the future, first. |