2008/9/26 Anivar Aravind anivar.aravind@gmail.com
<quote> If you want to help the community stay on the road to freedom, one important way is to publicly uphold citizen values. When people are discussing what is good or bad, or what to do, cite the values of freedom and community and argue from them.
It's no use going faster by taking the wrong road. Compromise is essential to achieve a large goal, but beware of compromises that lead away from the goal.
</quote> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/compromise.html
rms writes: "Twenty-five years ago on September 27, 1983, I
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announced a plan to create a completely free operating system called GNU -- for 'GNU is not Unix'. As part of the 25th anniversary of the GNU system, I have written this article on how our community can avoid ruinous compromises."
This is very relevant point for the activists in the Movement.