On Jul 22, 2008, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Craig White wrote: >> On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 12:16 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> around long enough to know that they aren't going to change each others >> minds on the topic as well. Perhaps they are speaking to the undecided. +1 > I suspect the vast majority have already decided. How could that be? The community is growing at a rapid pace. Every day, lots of people get into it that are still trying to grasp what this fedora thing is, and that have never heard of software freedom or GNU before, and have just a vague notion of what Linux. For all they know, it could be spelled Linwx, short for Linwx Is Not Windows Xp. :-) Fedora claims to be a community "all about freedom and rapid innovation". I might as well help them understand what freedom means when applied to software. Or at the very least offer them a second opinion that takes more of social responsibility than individual convenience into account. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
