[members at lugog] Free software: great power

[Ian Dickinson]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Administrator
<administrator at startext.co.uk> wrote:
> On 20/06/13 19:48, Sean Miller wrote:
>
>> Are we a "User Group" or a "Pressure Group"?
>>
>> LUGOG was set up to be a user group... there was no requirement for
>> members to be evangelists or anything...
>
>
> Hear, hear !
> Well said, Sean.
>
> Any attempt to 'take over' this */USER/* group for base socio-political
> purposes will inevitably generate extremely irate comment from me.
Oh come on Martin, that's pure trolling (which I suspect you know full
well!). This "group" is moribund, and has been for years. Check the
archives. If anyone did want to take it over for any vaguely useful
purpose, good luck to them I would say. However, that's not what Phil
was suggesting, and labelling someone's actions as "base", whatever
your view of the merits of their argument, is just being rude for no
good purpose. Let's keep the debate civil.

That said, I'm not particularly minded to blow my own trumpet about my
own open-source contributions, etc, partly because it doesn't feel
very British but mostly because I have few enough hours in the day
left for eating and sleeping as it is.

Ian