On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 01:38:52AM -0700, Praseed Pai wrote: > Hi Jos/Tahir , > I am not interested in a flame war here. > > Wine is a LGPL licensed free software. > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software) ) > > I will paste a line from my blog here > > " Win32 API is a capable API and it's availability in Linux is a good > migration path to linux. " ( I think WineLib will help people to port their > existing app to be ported to Linux and release under GPL!!! ) > > I come for User group meeting ( developer stream ) and has educated people > about writing software for Linux. (It is not just talk about Licensing alone > ....!!! ) > > I want Linux to succeed to liberate ourselves from Vendors like Microsoft. > > > Any one who ignores Windows ( it is a necessary evil ) will be an > impoverished programmer and can harm the aspirations of people who depend > upon them. (our kids,siblings and parents might not share the same zeal > regarding the Free Software movement ) > > Let us contribute some thing to the Free Software and talk about Freedom > later.
It is because that we forgot to talk about freedom and the free software philosophy or talk about it later, that this mail has come. Free Software is a social movement and with social values and the philosophy comes contribution, development and everything else. > > regards > Praseed Pai > > PS :- if this is axed , freedom of expression is denied. I will be forced to > call this group is for people who are not interested in Computer Programming. > > > > --- On Wed, 6/23/10, Jos Collin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: Jos Collin <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Windows SDK Programming under Linux > > To: "This List discusses GNU/Linux & GNU, GPL Software " > > <[email protected]>, [email protected] > > Date: Wednesday, June 23, 2010, 11:32 PM > > > Why should we discuss about > > Proprietary Software here. In this list, we discuss various > > topics related to GNU/Linux and Free Software. Please > > remember this before sending such mails. > > > > > > > That's 100% right. A true Free Software supporter is not > > only using Free Software, but he/she > > rejects propreitary software. If you Reject Propreitary > > Software then "Supporting Free Software" > > follows it. > > > > But Praseed, we are sad that you are not doing it. Not even > > for a moment. > > > > Jos Collin > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List > > http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ > > http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org > > #[email protected] > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List > http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ > http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org > #[email protected] _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
