Fwd: Re: [Fsf-friends] Celebrating annual day of FSF India

[Rakesh 'arky' Ambati]

--- "Mahesh T. Pai" <paivakil at vsnl.net> wrote:
> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 01:36:11 +0530
> From: "Mahesh T. Pai" <paivakil at vsnl.net>
> To: fsf-friends at gnu.org.in
> Subject: Re: [Fsf-friends] Celebrating annual day of
> FSF India
> 
> V. Sasi Kumar said on Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at
> 12:01:41PM +0530,:
> 
>  > to  discuss  our  activities,  so  that we  could
>  think  of  other
>  > activities   in  the   future  at  
> Thiruvananthapuram,   and  also
>  > co-ordinate with  people in other  places who may
> be  interested in
>  > conducting such programmes elsewhere.
> 
> Decentralised  celebrations by  local user  groups
> will,  IMO  be more
> effective.
> 
> And we should concenterate on freedom.
> 
> By  July 21st,  Gimp  will 2.1,  unstable  version 2
>  of  OOo will  be
> available, and Scribus will be at  1.3. The Linux
> kernel 2.6.8 will be
> in RC1, and 2.4.28 will be out.
> 
> My  September  21, and  for  every third  month 
> after  that, you  can
> increment each version number by 2.
> 
> Good thing? Yes. Definitely.
> 
> But,  the movement  has to  focus one  issue - 
> `freedom'.   More than
> install fests  and demos, the occassion  should be
> used  to talk about
> freedom and importance of free software.  Once
> people decide thay want
> freedom, the need for instllfest  as means of
> attracting people to the
> GNU will vanish.  But to help them actually use  the
> software, we need
> such demos and fests.
> 
> BTW, we keep on forgetting the HURD kernel.
> 
> -- 
>          Mahesh T. Pai    <<>>  
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> 
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