Hi, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tathagata Banerjee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ilug calcutta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 1:26 AM Subject: [ilug-cal] Re: Slide Formats
<snipped> > i realise that following this strategy may result in losing about 10 - > 15% viewership for our slides. what i would have done in this situation Ahem! Are you sure that's 10 - 15% of viewership? The stats are now publicly available to draw your own conclusions. And I'm open to discuss this further only if you are even remotely interested in discussing *facts* rather than fiction. I'll only say this -- *that slice* is the *potential* new FLOSS users who want to start using Linux. Restrict their options, you drive them away. <snipped> > integrity would intrigue and inspire more people to take a closer look > at free software than any technology-oriented advocacy in our slides. You are assuming everyones motivation and reason for using FLOSS is uniform throughout. Well, this may be a surprise to you, but it isn't! > that brings us together? why do you practise linux advocacy at all > (assuming you do)? if linux were merely free as in beer, and somewhat > more dependable than windows, there would be no movement, no pride, no > community, no sense of rendering service to society, and little > advocacy. there would just have been so many individual linux users, > mostly isolated on their thousand little islands. > we belong, because we believe. I'm reminded a comment I read on /. about RMS -- "He claims he is an atheist, Hmmm... He worships him own ideas" :^) <snipped> > as i explained earlier, there ain't no such animal as an OOo format. it > is a free format that's currently used by OOo only. nothing's stopping > other programs from adopting it. publishing only in that format may be > restrictive in the short term, but desirable in the larger scheme of > things. Seems to me you are confused/unaware of the diff betwn niche segment adoption and mass-scale adoption issues/principles. > > Actually I think that things would be simplified by placing HTML versions of > > the slides on the LUG website - thus avoiding the 'advertising' that you > > mention. > > you know, that's a good idea. resolves the difference nicely. count my > vote for this. webmaster, are you listening? Well, I'm yet to hear any *compelling* reason for moving from my stand of having multiple format d/l options.... i'm waiting guys, don't disappoint me! ;-) --indra. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
