Hello all,<br><br>Some observations<br><br>Anivar was one among the
organizers. If he was serious enough about the boycott Novell protest
he could have convinced the other organizing committee members earlier
itself. Why did he waited till the last day? <br>
True spirit of Freedom should make us help others to understand freedom software better. <br><br>What
we usually do is we support any initiative that helps free software. If
there is any thing wrong with the conception or understanding of the
organizers regarding the freedom concept we should be helping them to
correct themselves. That is what we usually do rather confronting them
saying that your concept of freedom is not perfect so that we are
against you and you are not welcome to the free software community. It
is good for us to alienate others or alienate ourself from rest who are
ready to do something for the freedom concept? Why should we establish
that we are more &quot;moral&quot; than everyone else.<br>
<br>So what i feel is Anivar was copyrighting the Boycott Novell
protest for himself. I dont believe he was interested in the
ideological aspect of the boycott novell protest in this case, rather
he was using the issue to fulfill his concealed agenda or else he could
have intervened in the early stages of organizing itself.<br>
<br>I also came to read some paper news against the conference. it is clear that it is written by someone
among us itself. So some people among us seriously working against
ourself. Why some people are sternly against some of the free software
get-togethers while we support all other programs concerning free
software. Anyone who has organized an event will know how it will be
when some one tries to interrupt the program. Free software events have
rules and agendas like any other meeting. And
participants have limited time to get the job done they came for. Its
quite logical for the organizers who did a great job to bring together 1000s in the name of free software to ask the protesters to leave. <br><br><br>i fear these attempts will only help our community to become a group of
free software technical group alienated from the masses. If what we
want is a free software &#39;movement&#39; it is not good to confront the
interested people.<br>
<br>One request....&nbsp;&nbsp; Dont alienate ourself from the rest.<br><br>Regards,<br>Haynes.<br>