-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/14/2006 08:50 PM, Rony cobbled together some glyphs to say: > On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 11:49:25AM +0530, Baishampayan Ghose wrote: >> But in any case, I think you have already made the mistake ... >> fasten your seatbelt kiddo, the flames are coming :) > Just because a person uses linux, he need not know who is RMS. During > one of our meets I had asked this question to a member too and I got > a decent reply with some details about him. There is no need to get > hyper about RMS queries. If people can't be polite its their negative > nature and such people will only make windows really win. We will be > the loosers.
Ask yourself this small question --- ``What is the minimum amount of knowledge you can expect from a member of a GNU/Linux Users' Group mailing list?'' It's not really about losing or winning a war. It's about knowing _why_ we are here today. No more, no less. Let me paraphrase Eben Moglen in this --- ``People who don't know the _why_ will hardly ever understand the _how_''. That's exactly what I can see happening. People just _love_ to shout about ``Linux'' and the greatness of ``Open Source'' but fail to understand something as fundamental as ``Freedom''. Trust me, it's not just about the software, it's about the whole society. No matter how many ``Linux'' users are there in this world or how many companies support ``Open Source'', the whole Free Software revolution will remain a failure as long as we don't understand what Freedom is. Regards, BG - -- Baishampayan Ghose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ubuntu -- Linux for Human Beings http://www.ubuntu.com/ 1024D/86361B74 BB2C E244 15AD 05C5 523A 90E7 4249 3494 8636 1B74 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE4JrXQkk0lIY2G3QRAh8dAJ4llarsgSg3Z11Ke5ZvbIOKjPz1/ACfUynK J7QhBOgNNCb0s42WmsfTXOY= =cl3L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
