> Lets stop this non sense. This happens here every other time some newbie ( > even am a newbie) comes n ask something.
No Sir, I won't. And I nobody think it as a nonsense. It is your own problem. > But our > mailing list is more concerned with the philosophies of freedom rather than > helping. Please understand the fact that if such strong philosophies are > being preached, nobody would be able to use even Ubuntu or Fedora, 'cos > they are not Free according to RMS himself! I've heard some of his speeches > and he lists out freedom issues with most of the common 'Linux' distros out > here. Yes, they contain non-free software also. But some of them can be configured properly (in the sources.list) for not to install any non-free stuff. The best thing is to use the distributions that the FSF recommends, which are entirely free. I use one of them. :-) http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html > http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html lists the 'free' distros. So > does all the members of ILUG-Kochi use only these distros? Most of us > started with Ubuntu and then maybe shifted to openSUSE or Fedora or others. > Lets have freedom to choose, and help. If you choose the non-free software then you won't get the freedom. > Lets instead use this ML to promote new ideas, share them, and most > importantly help others solve their problems! > Now please don't take this mail as another attack on anyone. Writing this > just because I'd love to see this ML grow as the best resource for anybody > to approach to solve technical problems and clear doubts. For philosophy > and history, there is always http://www.gnu.org/ and http://www.fsf.org/. You think that sending emails is the only help that can be done. If you were an active member, then you would know what is the real help that the active members of this group are doing. Ofcouse, there are a lot of other technical groups/discussion forums, which will discuss only technical things. _______________________________________________ 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]
