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

[Richard Cottrill]

-----Original Message-----
From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk]On Behalf
Of Peter Childs
Sent: 14 February 2003 09:55
<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.......) Then we might 
be able to get some of them intrested....
<snip>

Actually I've run into self-confessed anarchists handing out flyers at
open-source events. Politically, Linux, GNU, and Free software in general,
have a distinctly left-wing world view (access/equality for all, communal
reward for individual effort, etc).

More than once RMS has been described as a "long-haired hippie/commie", and
not without good reason (he has long hair and I doubt he'd be troubled by
being described as a hippie - commie may be going a bit far though). Linus'
parents were heavily involved in the Finnish communist party (from flakey
memeory).

The "socialist Free software" argument seems so ridiculously self-evident to
me that anyone who disagrees should have some very strong evidence (not "it
makes good commercial sense" (misses the point completely); nor "I'm not a
hippy" (also misses the point - I'm talking abstract politics here)).

You could do worse than hand out flyers at an anti-war rally - everyone else
will be.

Richard


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