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Hello, Dave!<br>
<br>
Sorry, but could you clarify what you meant in your email. It's
probably my English skills' fault,<br>
but the email just wasn't clear.<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:87oclavm6c.fsf@liv.ac.uk" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">
I'd urge people to take this as an example of how _not_ to behave with
an institution and the people in it who might actually be your friends
if you want to get something changed. </pre>
</blockquote>
<br>
Did you mean me, and my 'behaviour'?<br>
<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:87oclavm6c.fsf@liv.ac.uk" type="cite">
<pre wrap=""> Consider if it's more likely
Vladimir will now have people keen to help him (e.g. to open the
firewall), </pre>
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??<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:87oclavm6c.fsf@liv.ac.uk" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">or that words will be had with his department, for instance.
</pre>
</blockquote>
Words about what? My department (which is music department) has nothing
to do <br>
with double standards employed by the CSD and the fact that CSD is not
following<br>
their own guidelines (which is effectively - bending rules) and not
registering my Linux<br>
laptop to the network.<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:87oclavm6c.fsf@liv.ac.uk" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">(I can only say what the reaction will be if he wants help from the
research support group, including the only one in CSD you might see
wearing an FSF t-shirt.)
</pre>
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And what that reaction will be? What is the research support group? It
is very .... emmm..<br>
[what word to use?] embarasing to hear about the existense of such a
group from a person<br>
accidentaly involved in / familiar with the situation (if I didn't
write about it here, you<br>
wouldn't hear about it, Dave, I think); as the only thing I heard from
CSD was:<br>
"you are strongly advised not to use file-sharing apps" (this was in
reply to the notion,<br>
that my research topic is "Promoting <b>new talent</b> using
BitTorrent networks and file-sharing<br>
in general"). Needless to say - it doesn't involve sharing the
copyrighted content online.<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:87oclavm6c.fsf@liv.ac.uk" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">
If anyone else needs university-specific GNU/Linux information they
can't easily get via official channels,</pre>
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There's no information you can get there (the one you can trust). The
CSD issued documents<br>
are often misleading, not accurate. And after all the CSD do make up
new rules according to <br>
each situation.<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:87oclavm6c.fsf@liv.ac.uk" type="cite">
<pre wrap=""> the internal linux-users list
might be the place to ask. </pre>
</blockquote>
3 years ago I looked at the list, and it was effectively dead. Has
situation changed now?<br>
<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:87oclavm6c.fsf@liv.ac.uk" type="cite">
<pre wrap=""> For more general free software issues, they
could contact me informally (or officially, if it concerns research
support).
</pre>
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Thank you for this offer, Dave. If you don't mind I will use the
contact with you in the future.<br>
<br>
Vladimir<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:87oclavm6c.fsf@liv.ac.uk" type="cite">
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