<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Ramnarayan.K <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ramnarayan.k@gmail.com">ramnarayan.k@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Hi<br> <br> Am linking two articles here<br> <br> The first<br> What should we do with Free Software users who don't contribute to it<br> in any way?<br> <a href="http://stop.zona-m.net/node/58" target="_blank">http://stop.zona-m.net/node/58</a><br> <br> i think its an interesting insight into how some people may view open<br> source or open source developers / enthusiasts.<br> <br> How the author seems to have missed one critical argument. The best<br> value a user (any user) can contribute back to an open source software<br> is "actually" using it. Any software that does not get used is<br> deadware.<br> <br> ram<br> <font color="#888888"><br> --<br> ubuntu-in mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in</a><br> </font></blockquote></div><br><br><div>Free Software does not force you to contribute, in any sense. Just using the Free Software is a huge contribution. What was the initiating point for Free Software development? Help, Humanity, Open Sharing, no restrictions and cost bridges. So do not ask a person to either use and contribute, else drop using it;</div> <div><br></div><div>The author seems really mad over his/her own-dig reasons, and tried to connect things well for the article presentations. I am against it.</div><div><br></div><div>-- <br>-=Ravi=-<br> </div>