[SLUG] Next Meeting

[Al Girling]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 11:33:48PM +0100, Ian Eade @ IGM wrote:
> 
> > Sounds like a good idea to me.
> > 
> > In the interest of raising awareness of OSS in the area I've
> > put together this as a starting point for a poster.
> > 
> http://al.sdf-eu.org/tmp/poster.pdf
> 
[...]
> Looks good Al
> 
> A couple of things:
> 
> 1. Goverments - Governments

Well spotted Ian.  Note to self - must use spoll chucker!

> 2. ... for free - implying that it is financially free whereas it is
> intellectually free and typically gratis (financially free). In the
> context of OSS free and gratis hold two distinct meanings. Maybe:
>
> You too could be using the gratis software used by Governments, Schools,
> NASA, ISP's etc

Fair point, but I was aiming for maximum impact with as few words as possible.
Free tends to grab peoples attention more than gratis.  But as I said before,
this is only a starting point.

Thanks for the feed-back.

Al

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