[dundee] Constitution

Andrew Clayton dundee at lists.lug.org.uk
Mon May 5 15:37:01 2003


On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 11:37, Wm. G. Urquhart wrote:
> On Mon, 5 May 2003, Mark Harrigan wrote:
> 
> > Just another small thing before I finalise this beast.
> > 
> > On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 08:58:26PM +0100, Mark Harrigan wrote: 
> > > TLUG Constitution:
> > > 
> > >    1.  Aims and Objectives
> > > 
> > >          1. To provide a forum to discuss and gain experience of
> > >             GNU/Linux and all Open Source operating systems. 
> > > 
> > >          2. To help and educate interested parties in the usage of
> > >             Open Source operating systems and related software.
> > > 
> > >          3. To promote the use of Open Source as a viable alternative
> > >             to proprietary techniques.
> > 
> > For some reason I didn't really pay attention the GNU/ bit in 1.1, now
> > I'm not that keen on RMS decreeing that all Linux is GNU so would
> > anyone mind if I removed that bit. If there's conflict about that
> > we'll have to work something out. 
> 
> Yeah, remove the GNU and re-word with "Open Source variants of Linux" 
> Maybe?

I'm not really fussed either way about the GNU/Linux thing. I think
however, "Open Source operating systems" should remain worded as is.
AFAIK there are NO open source variants of Linux.....


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Andrew Clayton