[Gllug] Handing out flyers this Saturday for the Installfest.

[Dermot Moynihan]

At 09:55 14/02/03, you wrote:

>On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Richard Cottrill wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk]On Behalf
> > Of Colin Murphy
> > Sent: 13 February 2003 18:29
> > To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> > Subject: [Gllug] Handing out flyers this Saturday for the Installfest.
> >
> > <snip>
> > Probably doing Tottenham Court Road fairs, though I'm open to suggestions
> > of anywhere else I might get a good hit rate.
> > <snip>
> >
> > I understand there will be about half a million people in hyde park... Not
> > sure how many potential Linux users will be there.
> >
>         Anti War if memory serves correctly. Perhaps we ought to find some
>great item of Open Source software to have come out of Iraq and will not
>be available if we have a war... (I'm still thinking.......)

Oh, so that's what it was. Some people could even have taken offence at that.

>Then we might
>be able to get some of them intrested....

Nah, they're all fools - out there trying to save people's lives when they 
could be at home playing with their Linux boxes.

I suppose that there's a chance that people who are anti-war see the need 
to change the way the world works and would consequently be very interested 
in Linux. I'm anti-war and I'll certainly be at Hyde Park tomorrow (after 
first dropping in at Tott Crt Rd. Must have ones priorities ;)).

Incidentally, having read a lot of the posts for the past few months I no 
longer see Linux as being the great anti-capitalist thing I had at first 
believed. A few months ago, if asked, I would have answered that I would 
have expected most Linux devotees to be anti-capitalist and anti-war (same 
thing really) and that I'd probably see them on the march. It's not 
something I'd expect anymore.

It seems, at the end of the day to be just a computer Operating System. A 
great operating system but none the less, an operating system.

Sad really. Because it still has the potential.

Dermot

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