I would concur with Jack. The "free as in speech" aspect of the GPL is somewhere between confusing and irrelevant for most newbies. (and a good many experienced users)
Not that "free as in speech" is not important, but it's not something new users need to know immediately. -----Original Message----- >From: Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@debian.org> >Sent: Aug 30, 2009 11:16 AM >To: nlug-talk@googlegroups.com >Subject: [nlug] Re: Flyer for LinuxFest > > >On Sun, Aug 30 2009, Curt Lundgren wrote: > >> The flyer for the September LinuxFest at Watkins College is available: >> >> http://www.curtlundgren.com/linuxfest_sept09_flyer.pdf (150k) >> >> If the PDF doesn't work for you, here's a JPEG version: >> >> http://www.curtlundgren.com/linuxfest_sept09_flyer.jpg (900k) > > The flyer implies that the free in Linux applies to cost, and > not freedom. In other words, free as in beer, not as in speech. I > think that is somewhat misleading. > > manoj >-- >Cache: A very expensive part of the memory system of a computer that no >one is supposed to know is there. >Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/> >1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C > >> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
