+1 I doubt that the original author is a ms spy and he has come to poison our delicate ecosystem.
gnu has been subjected to corporate espionage for long . Most of the mailing lists and irc channels are penetrated by paid spys and there is even a secret chamber inside MS where meetings are held once in a week to devise measures for espionage. It is said they sacrifice a goat ( resembling gnooh) once in a year. I say we must create a anti-espionage team under ILUG-kochi and discuss about this as this is a very serious issue. On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Sebin Jacob <[email protected]> wrote: > I suppose, it is because of the politics involved in making software free, > that many of us started using them and not just because of the superiority > over any other system. That put aside, we love the ecosystem and we started > experimenting with stuff that at last proved for us beyond doubt that, this > is far more superior than proprietary counter stuff. > > I started as a windows user for sure. I then started installing Free > software inside windows. Next I tried out some distro and was not able to > run it by my self. So was stuck in windows for long. Still I was able to use > many a free software programs to my satisfaction even inside windows. > > But the quest to migrate to Gnu/Linux continued. That ended up in continous > distro hopping and now I am using only Arch linux in my Laptop without much > proprietary stuff. My father uses Chakra as his choice of distro. I have a > desktop too, which is used by my school going child and I have Ubuntu in it > right now. I am planning to replace it with FreeBSD though. These are all > choices. > > Somebody coming to an event of a Libre S/w user group and advocating for > the use of proprietary stuff is silly. Without the politics behind it, will > GPL be ever evolved? > > gnu.org's list is just a recognition of being completely free. Can't > somebody maintain such a list? > > Open office is available in windows too. Does that make Open Office > proprietary? What is the rationale in calling someone hypocrite for such a > naive reason? > > _______________________________________________ > 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] > -- Anoop P Alias (PGP Key ID : 0x014F9953) GNU system administrator http://GnuSys.net
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