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On 08/14/2006 08:50 PM, Rony cobbled together some glyphs to say:
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 11:49:25AM +0530, Baishampayan Ghose wrote:
But in any case, I think you have already made the mistake ... fasten your seatbelt kiddo, the flames are coming :)
Just because a person uses linux, he need not know who is RMS. During one of our meets I had asked this question to a member too and I got a decent reply with some details about him. There is no need to get hyper about RMS queries. If people can't be polite its their negative nature and such people will only make windows really win. We will be the loosers.
Ask yourself this small question --- ``What is the minimum amount of knowledge you can expect from a member of a GNU/Linux Users' Group mailing list?'' It's not really about losing or winning a war. It's about knowing _why_ we are here today. No more, no less. Let me paraphrase Eben Moglen in this --- ``People who don't know the _why_ will hardly ever understand the _how_''. That's exactly what I can see happening. People just _love_ to shout about ``Linux'' and the greatness of ``Open Source'' but fail to understand something as fundamental as ``Freedom''. Trust me, it's not just about the software, it's about the whole society. No matter how many ``Linux'' users are there in this world or how many companies support ``Open Source'', the whole Free Software revolution will remain a failure as long as we don't understand what Freedom is. Regards, BG
- -- Baishampayan Ghose b.ghose@ubuntu.com Ubuntu -- Linux for Human Beings http://www.ubuntu.com/
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