Well, I was talking from a user point of view (As a user I never had to tweak Mozilla). Also I feel a little worried when I see some proponents of free software making it another religion (while they take it emotional when they have to use anything that is not 'free').
I am just afraid that it might end up like left parties in Kerala (read CPIM) where everybody talks Leninism and Karl Marx and nobody knows what it means (just like most of the religions nowadays ). A lot of (so called) Open Source proponents are ending up as just Microsoft bashers and most of them doesn't know what Linux kernel is (I haven't seen the kernel file either and I am typing this from a Windows Vista and Google Chrome... forgive me ). Please take this in a positive sense (I love the idea of open source too!) still it is debatable. Thanks Febin http://twitter.com/febinkk On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 10:41 PM, V. Sasi Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 21:05 +0530, febin mohammed wrote: > > Free in 'free bird' and 'free beer' are the same unless you contribute > > to a free software or tweak it at least once. > > I don't think so. Free Software remains Free (in the sense of Freedom) > whether one contributes to it or not. And contribution can be other than > contributing code or documentation. It can be helping in popularising > Free Software, reporting bugs or even just using it (which is, of > course, one way of popularising it). > > Best > -- > Dr. V. Sasi Kumar > Please visit http://chithariyachinthakal.blogspot.com > -- > V. Sasi Kumar > Free Software Foundation of India > Please visit http://swatantryam.blogspot.com > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
