On Monday 12 April 2010 09:32 PM, Nagarjuna G wrote:
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Mohit Singh<[email protected]> wrote:
Dear FOSSouls,
IEEE POSIX unites all UNIX like systems and USENIX has always been an
alive global platform for UNIXers.
As FOSS movement is a repackaging/extension/institutionalization of
the UNIX culture, why cant we involve USENIX with us and vice versa?
India has no USENIX chapter!! just some unix enthusiast group in unix
storage and networking represents India in USENIX!!
for OS enthusiasts, we can state that we are coming closer to the
unifier POSIX umbrella.
We are a GLUG and we intend to convert it into USENIX local chapter so
that we come closer to what 'www.unix.org' conveys.
Whatever best that could be saved from Unix was already saved by GNU
with the added value of freedom.
What other value are you bringing in by converting a GNU/Unix group
into USENIX? If you wish to include other free unices, then you may
rename it FSUG instead.
+1
and by the way, as far as GNU is concerned (or what popularly but
wrongly is called linux ), its not so much about being a Unix like OS,
but its about freedom.
It is just that Unix has the best featureset as an OS and RMS created
some thing which is Not Unix.
And what matters to us is the free software culture and the revolution
it has brought. I don't know what is a "unix culture " to do with
digital freedom as such.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
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