And its its not ethical to propagate hatred either, cos its gonna back fire just like it did for this event. Using windows is not a big crime, but it was given the impression of a big crime by some fanatics. And thats the only reason why some questioned the usage of windows for presentations.
Is it necessary to say "Bad Vista" in order promote free software ? Vista sucks for sure, but why spend time energy and money to say it sucks. Now dont come up and say, I am a microsoft spy. http://www.kenneyjacob.com Kenney Jacob On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Jayson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > But all Free Software community > > asks is not to mix us these and don't use pragmatic values to > > represent Free Software. > > I agree. After all if you are a religious preacher, you cannot promote > atheism in your sermons. Agreed. But don't condemn those who are > atheists! (I am using an analogy here). > > > You are mixing up things and being unclear about issues. As you > > mentioned earlier about the patent menace, it is a big issue and what > > Novell did to the patent equation was very damaging to the community. > > Novell's deal gave legitimacy to Microsoft's patents claims on Free > > Software and it divided the community between those who pay royalties > > to Microsoft and those who do not. It was clearly a deal that went > > against the spirit of the GPL and community had to come up with better > > wording in GPLv3. And what is your position with respect the the > > Novell-Microsoft deal? Do you support it? > > Software patents are evil and Novell's actions gave it a pseudo > legitimacy. I have no doubt about it. But when you protest it, you > need to follow the rules of the land. After all, we are a democracy. > > > Nobody is questioning that. Free Software is about choosing what is > > ethically right for the society. You may disagree with, that is > > perfectly OK. But don't tell we should change our values. > > I won't. Yet I reserve my right to fight for what *I* think is > ethically correct. I don't buy the argument that 'either you are with > us or with them'. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
