[Lancaster] GNU

[Wayne Ward]

I agree i think we should support both the gnu and and linux and any  
other organisations that have helped or part of the gnu/linux distro
cheers richard for clean and straight to the point! :)


sounds good andy! i was thinking exactly the same thing but didnt take  
the time to figure out how to re-word
ill sit down and read what you have put and change it cheers for that!!
Your the first to help out with the site!!!
Please take a look around a find any other bits we can improve and  
then we can get it right
Its been pretty hard work to get it were it is now and any help is  
appreciated :)
but ill take a look at the changes tomorrow
well spotted ;)

One tired person

Wayne :)

On 15 Dec 2009, at 02:15, andy baxter wrote:

> Wayne Ward wrote:
>> ha ha cheers john !! good bloody point!!
>> i have  lot of respect for the guy and his contribution not only to
>> linux and the gnu
>> i certainly dont mind supporting advertising the gnu :)
>>
>> any yer dude i talked the guy respect :)
>>
>>
>
> I agree that it's good to give credit to GNU for the work they did  
> (even
> though it's a losing battle that Stallman is fighting on this point,  
> as
> far as I can see).
>
> While we're on this subject, I have a bit of a quibble with some of  
> the
> wording on the front page of the LUG site. Where you say:
> "Our members share interests in Linux and free or low-cost
> implementations of Unix", it implies that 'free' means free-as-in- 
> beer.
> That just plays into the hands of people that don't understand free
> software and think that windows is free because you can install  
> cracked
> copies.To me it's important to keep making the distinction between
> free-as-in-beer and free-as-in-speech. The second of these is more
> important in my opinion, because everything else (including the
> free-as-in-beerness of many distros) stems from that. I would be  
> happier
> if you could change it to something like:
> "Our members share interests in Linux and free (as in speech)
> implementations of Unix."
>
> If I wanted to be really picky, I would also say that when you go on  
> to
> say "as well as apple macintosh", I would be happier if this was put  
> in
> a separate sentence saying something along the lines that linux and  
> free
> (as in speech) software is the primary focus of the group but
> (obviously), being geeks we are interested in what is happening on  
> other
> platforms including macintosh, bsd, solaris, mobiles, embedded  
> systems,
> and even windows while we're at it. The point being that even though
> macs are cool in some way because they aren't windows and they use BSD
> as part of the OS, much of what Apple does as a company isn't so good
> from a free software point of view, and I think it's a mistake to  
> try to
> include Mac users in the group any more than anyone else who likes
> computers when really Apple is just another company the same as
> Microsoft (who I think own a lot of their shares) who will do what  
> they
> can to make a profit regardless of the things that free software  
> stands for.
>
> But I won't (be really picky). promise. Not at all. I never said a  
> thing.
>
> good wishes,
>
> andy
>
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Wayne Ward

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