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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I don't see why microsoft's OSes should be shut out from Free / Open Source software discussions - it isn't all about Linux and BSD after all. There are many excellent freeware titles available for Windows, and many of the most popular OpenSource projects have been ported to Windows.
The difference between free software and communism, is that no one's forcing developers to give their products away. That's the point - if you write a program you have the 'freedom' to market it commercially, release it as closed-source freeware, or release the source code under whichever license you choose. How is that communism?
Personally, I think the idea of a Free Software day is excellent, but it shouldn't be limited to alternative OSes. I've given away many CDs of freeware Windows software!
-Bob