[FSF India] Talking about free software in schools
M.P.Anand Babu
ab@gnu-india.org
06 Nov 2001 15:02:44 -0800
"Nagarjuna G." <nagarjun@hbcse.tifr.res.in> writes:
> There is also greater demand. Presently it looks like if we
> could harness merely the demand created, we are already doing
> what we should be doing. But I do agree with you that we
> should do it professionally. However the problem is that we
> are functioning mostly as individuals, though we sometimes
> exhibit good coordination, I should admit that we are a
> heterogenous group. May be we need more ideas about how we
> impliment this in a larger country like ours.
I agree 100%. Lets work towards that. I guess the Board members
should come up with the coordination plans.
> There is another problem. The Mumbai group particularly
> started as a GNU/Linux Users Group, and not as FSF - India.
> When we went out and started talking about Freesoftware we
> talked about everything under the sun, such as Free/Open RH,
> SuSE, Caldera, Mandrake etc, including of course GNU/Debian.
We dont need to care about non-ethical distributions. Why should we
market for SuSe, Caldera, RedHat or Mandrake ?
> We do have a big group, but if we start an explicit campaign
> under the banner of FSF-I, I am afraid, I may be excluding a
> few of the core members. So the numbers that remain may not
> be sufficient to support a movement. On the otherhand, it is
Core members of what ?
What matters to us is the Ethics. We need not be desperate about the
head count.
RMS started FSF *ALL ALONE*
> wise to be with the heterogenous group and continue to talk
> about the ethics and politics of free software as and when the
> opportunity arises. E.g., I dont refuse to install RH or SuSE
> in a workshop, though I would love to show them Debian. I do
I will refuse.
> make use of the opportunity to talk about the differences both
> in substance and spirit. I want to know whether others also
> face similar situations.
best regards
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