[Novalug] [Dclug] 3 weeks to Linux picnic!!

Stephen Chapman schap@offenbachers.com
Tue Jul 15 09:10:31 EDT 2008


No one said anything negative about the Free Software movement... 
However .. this IS a Linux Users Group... right???  ...
Don't be so Hyper Sensitive...

Serge Wroclawski wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 08:54:56AM -0500, Mike Weaver wrote:
>   
>> Id respond, but frankly I can't figure out what you are trying to say:
>>
>> "By omitting any mention of the Free Software movement in a forum where  
>> the situation is quite disrespectful."
>>
>> This sentence makes no sense.
>>     
>
> Hrm, something got cut off in that sentence.
>
> It should have read:
>
> By omitting any mention of the Free Software movement in a forum where
> the situation is known that the two sides have different viewpoints
> and an understanding of trying to generally acknowldge the other and
> work together is quite disrespectful.
>
> I think I must have hit somethign too many times when I edited it and
> deleted two lines somewhere.
>
> The point is that people on these lists know, or should know, that the
> Free Software movement pre-dates Open Source, and that the work
> towards a Free operating system predates Linus's work by quite a while
> as well.
>
> We in the Free Software movement have a larger focus and have been
> continually pushing our work forward to secure individuals rights and
> freedoms.
>
> One doesn't have to necessarily agree with our goals, but to not
> acknowledge the movement and play a bit of revisionist history (ala 17
> years of Open Source) is really distrespectful.
>
> - Serge
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