hi friends,
Its not the first time we have come across such __Initiative__ posts.
I have a bookmark (real ones which we use to mark pages in small rectangular objects called books)which reads..,
"The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention".
Take a moment to ask yourself,when is last time you have helped fix some bug's in your GNU software or written some documentation, helped someone understand the 'nut & bolts' of operating system and software.
Lets do some good rather than taking part in endless posts about how to bring about change ...
Real changes comes from our contributions, our actions speaks for us.
-arky
PS:Please ignore if I have " over board " in this post.
--- Ramanraj K ramanraj@md4.vsnl.net.in wrote:
Atul Asthana @ home wrote:
I guess, we need to draft a letter which brings out
the comparitive advantages of using open source in the government. We also need to ensure that OSS becomes part of school and college syllabi.
We can then publish the letter on various lists and
let people choose as to what their concerns are.
Hmm.. Again, a deluge of postings advocating `Open Source' through the fsf-friends mailing list.
The Open Source Initiative is a tactic to market Free Software principles. Now what? The open source fans are trying their tricks here - trying to advocate and dump their contrived Open Source rhetoric all over the FSF-India mailing list. Probably the open source tacticians should all join together and start the Open Source Initiative
- India chapter. What a shame that we have to put
ideas into their heads. Oh, have no fear. Our open source friends don't really read and understand what we write here. As usual, we could expect them to be dumb about our protests and watch them continue with their usual tactics to post unwelcome and inappropriate postings to this list in a casual and brazen manner, ignoring the reasons why their `open source' label is not fit to describe free software. [visit:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html
]
Recently slashdot reported a story `five' years old, in which Eric Raymond says:
/The real disagreement between OSI and FSF, the real axis of discord between those who speak of "open source" and "free software", is not over principles. It's over tactics and rhetoric. - /http://www.linuxworld.com/story/43966.htm
Enough of these tactics. Let us please stick to plain principles with free software.
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