Well. Same issues with Debian and non-free. We need to have a commitment to the goals of SPI but they also need some freedom. The LUGs would be a grassroots organization that has the potential of motivating huge amounts of people to get familiar with free software, principle and goals.
On 5 Apr 1999, John Goerzen wrote: > Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I wonder if SPI would be willing to take LUGs as projects. I have two LUGs > > in my area that might be interested in getting tax-deductable donations > > and have some official status. > > > > How about websites and email lists for LUGs? > > At first, I was thinking, "hey wow, great idea." However, on second > thought, it gets stickier. What if LUGs are promoting things that SPI > disagrees with? For instance, maybe they are doing a Linux Install > and advocating the use of non-free software or distributions with a > lot of non-free software (eg, Caldera, and to a lesser extent, > RedHat). What do we do then? If SPI is sponsoring the LUG, cutting > off support is a great way to make enemies and look like bad guys > fast. OTOH, we can't really keep supporting a LUG that is advocating > positions we disagree with. > >
