Hey Good morning Gang, Cool little Pengy post we have there for the next installfest. I happened to be at the last one and as far as the newcomers coming in it was totally "free" for them. They didn't have to lift a finger and quite a few wonderful people did a lot of stuf behind the scenes and doing setup/tear down that defintely wasn't "free". But I know was heart felt and passionate. So in that sense it was free. I know when I first started with Linux about 6 years ago, being able to get a whole OS for no cost was important to me because I didn't have much money. I learned the philosophy of freedom a little later down the line. One of the things that really struck home with me was The Rise of the Linux Revolution I think it is called. That movie, which can still be found on the web and if not I have a copy, really helped me understanding the underlying concepts. A short one liner is not going to mean anything really to the normal newb who probably doesn't even know how to re-install Windows or what a partition is on a hard drive.... KISS would be well applied to the whole event. It's not 911 and not brain surgery. It's a group of people who are passionate about how to get pieces of plastic, metal and glass working together.
Gregory On Aug 30, 11:16 am, Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@debian.org> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
