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

[Drascus]

Yeah it's hard to get people to go to these types of events. The only
people that would show up are people who truly believe that non-free
software is wrong and a social injustice. There are not a whole lot of
people who believe that so it's not that surprising. But at least it was
in a visible place with a lot of people walking by. The Campaign has
gotten some media attention which is good. 

Mike C.  

On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 03:30 -0400, Danny Piccirillo wrote:
> 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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