On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Kinshuk Sunil <[email protected]>wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 11:38 PM, Debasish <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> This could be a not so important discussion, but what if I use Free >> BSD. It appears that they also take part in the discussions in the >> group. Is it more appropriate to call it FSUG (Free Software User >> Group) ? >> > > Well, what you say has a point. But as far as I understand, Linux is merely > symbolic here in the name. A very similar argument can be to call these a > GLUG (GNU/Linux...) and not a LUG. But since Linux here reflects FOSS, so it > aint exclusive in a way as well. So GLUG or LUG or FSUG, it all boils down > to the same thing in the end. > > My 2 cents on it. > > We had discussion, but things are not just limited to Linux Kernel - We do many things here - I asked this to one of my frined - http://twitter.com/nsisodiya/statuses/19316445192126464 "Do we any "common term" which specify behavior of advocating GNU/Linux, FreeSoftware, OpenStandards , anti-sw-patents anti-DRM " We deal will ethical and social side of technology. One can assume the world before 1947 etc, Power comes by "people", "land" , "economic" and "technology" earlier, we (human system) were having "DAS system" were some people were ruling over other. It ends. Then there was a fight over "land", that is also over. Now the monopolist guys has see the indirect monopoly system which says -- "feed people good things and they will sit in jail" So in this world people are fight over economic monopoly and technological monopoly. We are the person's who have understanding of technology work and what is good and what is bad, for example - close standards make vendor-lock-in sw-patent make a life==hell for a developer and startups DRM & non-free software kill freedom* So people are right for rights - we the FOSS community is a very broad level fight for "techright" http://techrights.org/?stories So Even if we change it to NCR LUG or NCR-FUSG or IITFSUG.. it won't be fully appropriate. Only thing I see is having a -- "TUG" techright user group.... ++++++++++++ * somebody said, who need freedom ? many guys do not want to edit source code. This is similar to "having a election voting rights" and "not voting for personal reason". -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
