Hi,

Rajarshi spewed the following electrons:

> But we have to face the fact that there are lots of people using non free s/w.
> Does that mean we refuse to allow people who use non free software to view
> information content produced by the LUG? This seems to me to be sort of a
> viscious cycle: unless you're using OSS s/w you cant view OSS info (ie info
> produced by a LUG) and unless you're able to view such info, how do you get
> to know about OSS s/w?
<snipped>
> to a person in Calcutta (on dialup) who has read of OSS somewhere, wants to
> know a little more, comes to the Cal LUG site and finds out that he cant view
> any of the slides.

Do take a look at http://www.ilug-cal.org/stats/OSREP.html.

Linux is *definitely* the largest block out there, but following it is Win*
variants, and not a very insignificant numbers either.

Public the PPTs from OO if that makes you feel kosher ;-)

Actively advocating an exclusionist FLOSS policy is IMHO being as bad as the
worst of MSFT/proprietary world.

cheers,
--indra.





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