18 Mar
2004
18 Mar
'04
11:35 p.m.
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(a)md4.vsnl.net.in> wrote:
Atul Asthana @ home wrote:
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
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.
]
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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