On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 12:01:00AM +0530, Sachin Nair wrote:
How many of you people actually believe in the fsf movement? .. while there was talk about bringing everything under the fsf umbrella, it seems the India chapter is already dead!!
Interesting claim to make ... any particular reason why you say its _already_ dead?
Well I used to word "seems" :) with their website lying inactive for some months now ... and you have ignored my first question.
Well I am not sure what you mean by "believe in the _fsf movement_" ... as far as I know, the "movement" is for software freedom, and FSF is trying to be a central body to support it. There's also the open source movement. Then there's this huge category of people who simply don't care about movements, and instead just code and give away their work because they feel like doing so.
You might get a better response if you first spell out the point, that you are trying to drive.
I don't know about any "talk about bringing everything under the FSF umbrella". Like I said, there are all kinds of people ... in fact a lab in our dept is planning to become a major player in _open source_ software in the long run ... the emphasis being more on affordability than freedom. A lot of corporate entities are interested in those efforts since its a great way to expand their market.
Sameer.