Linux is about community and communities are about both giving and getting / taking.
If vendors can do without LUGS then its not GNU/Linux anymore its no different from what the open source community has been advocating all the while. And communities that have a sense of freedom will always get together and do something about it. The poweful have a vested interestd in keeping communities / groups of people and individuals who are not of the same profiteering bent of mind isolated , their strenght lies in that. If they succeed they can get away with murder , and they do. But with the power of the net and to be able to communicate over and above controls that they (the powers ) may put in, free communities will exists and resist. Raj said it the community can do without vendors but can they do without the success story that the GNU/Linux community has weaved. ram Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: >Regardless of your views of Atul ;), you should read this. > >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-bangalore-2005/message/1823 > >I can't but help agreeing to the following excerpt from the above. > >""" >I find this particularly urgent now, because I am beginning to see the >LUGs being sidelined by the Powers That Be. In fact, someone from a >well-known vendor recently told me that the LUGs are irrelevent, and >that they only work with organisations that actually do something >worthwhile (according to the vendor). > >These very same vendors also tend to raise the profile of *some* groups >(that they are involved with) with people like the Government, >completely cutting the LUGs out of the picture. > >This, according to me, is killing the goose that lays golden eggs, or >shooting yourself in the foot. It was the LUGs that did the hard ground >work, it is the LUGs that support people who have questions, it is the >LUGs who come up with initiatives. When the LUGs become irrelevant, the >passion and the backbone goes out of the picture, and the efforts die >down, making it a vendors' game. >""" > >Any comments? > >- Sandip > > > _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
