New thoughts are always welcome which shows that we are "free" in our thoughts as well.
Personally I like reading the discussions from my mail, which is a great convenience. Best regards, George On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 1:06 PM, V. Sasi Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 12:36 +0530, Rajeev J Sebastian wrote: > > > > Whats even more disturbing of course, is that this group used the > > "non-free" Google Groups in the first place :P > > I think the issue raised by aniyathikutty is worth being discussed. Many > new groups use the facilities in Google or Yahoo because it gives > several conveniences, the most important being that it does not need a > website to be set up. Anyone can start a group easily. At the same time, > I think it is desirable that a Free Software group uses, of course, Free > Software :-) That means that we need to have space on a server. So, the > best thing to do would be to find out whether we can find space > somewhere, if possible without payment (since we don't collect money for > such purposes). I will try to see if we can do that. In that case, I > think we should move to a Free Software based list. This is certainly > not a question of convenience, but of principle. > > At the same time, if there are people who believe that mailman or any > other software is not good enough, I would suggest that we try to > provide features that help it to improve. Because mailman is not someone > else's property. It belongs to us, and the whole humanity. If we find > that an article we have written is not good enough, we don't abandon it > and take someone else's article. We try to improve it as best as we can. > Because it is ours. > > So, let us move to a Free Software based mailing list as soon as we can, > and try to improve the features in mailman, if some people can find ways > to do that. Of course, this is only my opinion. > > Best > -- > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
