Linked by Henrik Nilsen Omma on Tue 9th Mar 2004 05:48 UTC
You, the reader, are hereby invited to participate in a celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) on August 28th this year. On that day we will stage public events to inform the general public about the virtues of FOSS. We invite you to form local teams and set up tables in town centers, shopping malls, or wherever there are likely to be lots of people on a Saturday.
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so scarry! the internet turned into NBC+ and msnbc world report.
"In effect, the TCG specification will transfer the ultimate control of your PC from you to whoever wrote the software it happens to be running. (Yes, even more so than at present.)" I am giving ultimate control to the FOSS community by using freebsd5.2.1 (current installed distro)
My point is that I know nothing but the directions I have been reading. I have been using open source software for a couple of years now, from slackware to freebsd, in and out again. Yet, I am outside the OS community, I am the average joe stumbled across an interesting linux mag, found a slackware packaged cd for free (as in gratis). Beyond that I am putting no less Trust in the OS community of writers than I am in Bill G. FOSS must develop Trust also, because I am trusting you guys/developers to monitor yourselves and keep the internet wide open. (Restricting the internet is like putting a ceiling in the sky and telling me I can't fly. "Give me Liberty or give me death".)
FOSS is clearly needed by the average joes, moms and pops. and quickly. you will miss your chance by months in this environment. August seems to far away. How about a May Floss.
America is engaged currently in a subtle cold civil war and the results will greatly affect the outcome of the greater civil war. FOSS Is a Tool. Be a Trusted One. Sell the aaverage joe honesty, decency, liberty, freedom, and entertain us with both the low and more importantly the High.
If August it must be, oh well.
IF anything guys, please keep at least an alternative channel open, a second internet. you may have to provide free ISP service. Heck, I'll even pay for it if it comes down to it.
but I really believe that I should not have to have an ISP another object of Trust.
:-)