Vinay Pawar wrote :
I think the idea of free software should sink in to peoples minds.
Rightly said pawar. The idea of Free Software should be in the minds of believers. But as anything else there should be some one to talk about it.Only because there are a few percentage of the total community of Developers know what the stuff FsF* is. The main problem is there is no official topics in the normal cource of study for any computer student or developer to know about FsF. A developer can live his entire life without knowing about FsF and can use FsF products..( Sorry that's the case in India Now) Another problem is a developer or student who wants to know about some GNU stuff have no place to go for information..(bandwidth problem will block him from living in internet)
Forcing it in by a "Activists Group" wouldn't help,
Right.... Never force someone to believe in a philosophy.. But the ideas can be given to the air and let others smell it..
instead might be counter-productive. All that needs to be done is that every LUG in the country should have atleast one FSF representative.
It's the way.. The Flags* and the current LUG's are the same except in two things. 1)Flags will be saying the ethics too 2)Flags will contain other GNU lovers also than GNU/Linux.. (other OS's such as GNU/Hurd and similar BSD stuff and etal.)
I might've suggested this before. It works. It has worked for us at the Pune GNU/Linux Users Group. Noticed on multiple ocassions as the most active and coolest User Group in the country. Almost all of the "flag" activities could/should be done at existing User Groups. It should be understood by the LUG's that Linux(yes, i mean the kernel) wouldn't have gone very far if it wouldn't be under the GPL.
Thanks, Vinay Pawar
there should not be any competetion between the existing LUG's and Flags. It'll be better to convert the LUGS in the Flag way. Something like start Flags where there are no LUGS and let the LUGs come in the Flag way (don't bother about the names but the content)
-HTH -psk
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