On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 8:50 PM, shreekant bohra <[email protected]>wrote: > > > what if I don't have a facebook or orkut account ? using these tools for > supporting foss looks lame to me, when I see a lug's mailing list as google > group, I think, ummm why not mail man? > > > -- > Shree Kant Bohra >
We should not have this kind of attitude that we end up in hating everything which is closed source. What do we ultimately want? Promotion of opensource or limit it only those nerds who would subscribe to the LUG mailing list? The biggest challenge is to get the common man use open source technologies, and if facebook can help us in that, then why not use it? I'm myself following many open source projects through their facebook fan pages and it really helps me. Do you expect Facebook to give all of their code to you so that they can convince you to use it? We cant make everything open source and kill our business. Hating Microsoft Office is fine, as it does not follow open standards, but why hate facebook? -- Regards, Gautam Chaudhary -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
