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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"and RMS hailed the fellow softwarecommunists about how evil the corporations are because they want to make money."
Freedom, not price. You missed the entire point. FSF has no problem with ie. IBM or RedHat or even themselves earning money because of FLOSS.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Commercial
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html#ProprietarySoftware
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html#TOCcommercialSoftware
https://agia.fsf.org/
http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html#accent
http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html#equivocation
"-stop using stupid acronyms like foss, floss, gnu/linux when adressing non-technical public."
Why? Stupid?
"-stop ranting about microsoft, in fact don't even mention them."
Why?
"-stop talking about hackers."
Why?
"-have a litle bit of marketing sence when adressing the public and try to look good: wear a suit and tie and drop the Che Guevara look (it really doesn't look good)"
Why? Open source addresses the marketing. It has been fairly succesful, given that since the terms creation and publishing of the Cathedral and the Bazaar corporations like Netscape, Oracle, Sun, IBM, and loads more adapted the "open source" model. Anything else?
"-get more women involved in open software projects, there's hardly any today. "
Proof? Why do you suggest positive discrimination and how would you prefer to address it?
"-do not under any cirsumstance make any political comments."
Why?
Ranting is your hobby, right? There is a difference between a suggestion and a Suggestion. The first one is nothing but whining and ranting, in this case without providing necessary resources. The second one contains resources, proof, is worked out with logic and therefore valuable. It's not that black/white, but i'd argue your post is one which fits in the former category.