On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 01:15:46AM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: > Wrong. I'm a free software person (as people who know me will > testify), but I know from experience that forcing your ideology down > people's throats is not the way to persuade them. I believe this GR > will actually damage the reputation of the free software community - > it'll make us look like a bunch of ideological extremists. What he said. I think the fact that we have a non-free section which gets treated as a second class citizen in many respects demonstrates adequately our preference for free software. Sure, it's not going to get the message over to everyone - but I don't think this resolution will help convince people of the merits of free software. -- Mark Brown mailto:broonie@tardis.ed.ac.uk (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
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