[ubuntu-us-ma] [Fwd: [FSF] Launching the Windows7sins Campaign - Join us Wednesday in Boston]

Danny Piccirillo danny.piccirillo at ubuntu.com
Mon Aug 31 08:30:00 BST 2009


I wasn't able to make it in the end, but here's some video coverage. Looks
like the only people there were FSF members, about 20 of them. Sad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnrFHB3YSx0

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 20:14, Martin Owens <doctormo at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was actually replying to Mike R. (leftyfb) sorry Mike C. (drascus).
>
> I personally believe that social injustice is the right reason to be
> involved with Free Software and why the far reaching problems with
> non-free software do need to be explained.
>
> But the event as proposed smacks of sensationalism and I haven't yet
> seen anything positive to balance the negative. Closed source won't eat
> your babies, but it may impoverish them educationally, economically,
> socially and politically.
>
> Let me know whent he FSF office in _Boston_ has chosen a place/date for
> _their_ event. Not the world wide airy fairy details, but the real down
> to earth event happening in this city.
>
> Martin,
>
> On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 18:50 -0400, Drascus wrote:
> > Well software freedom day is no big mystery it's september 19th
> > http://softwarefreedomday.org/ . I am perhaps one of the few that think
> > proprietary software is a social injustice. It's hard to point out an
> > injustice without talking about why it is wrong. Some people see that as
> > being negative I see it as being informative. After all Windows, MacOS
> > and just about every other proprietary vendor has no problem with trying
> > to persuade people into believing that FOSS is bad. So why should we not
> > counter and point out why we are good and why they are doing wrong. I
> > understand the whole two wrongs don't make a right philosophy. But one
> > wrong with no rebuttal doesn't make right either. if you look where the
> > proprietary giants are taking things if they own the future a scary
> > future it will be. We need to maintain if nothing else a counter
> > balance.
> >
> > Mike C.
>
>
>
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