On Saturday 08 January 2011 09:44 AM, Raman.P wrote: > I am against this. Let us take the only task - promote FOSS and do it well. > Each post will start endless thread about the particular hardware -good, bad, > beautiful etc. It may also lead to ugly personal exchanges if a deal goes bad. > I am surprised at the fact - FOSS related annoucement/doubts in local > languages was frowned upon- but totally unrelated commercial activity getting > so much support. >
I agree with your sentiment, but let me try to put it this way - FOSS in and itself is great, but the devices it runs on, and can run on are increasing day by day. A couple of years ago nobody that I knew of (locally) had an Android device, so right from acquiring it, to getting some basic skills on how to ship an Android app, I had to learn it on my own. Right now, I have spent enough time with the ecosystem to give a rather long discourse on it. So in the process of selling the it, if there are long discussions about the device, support and community (I can rave for a really long time about the awesomeness of CyanogenMod, but that's for a different post). I would love it if there are discussions about these devices. I think that can only be a good thing. Like I said, I'm not too sure if there won't be any spam - but I think we can deal with it, just like we did with other issues. We do allow another blatantly commercial activity, which is advertising for jobs - but we do tolerate it in the interest of the members. So I don't really see a problem with slightly expanding the scope of our discussions (can any member here really say hardware is *not* exciting? - I for one would love to hear if any of us are hacking on the Kinect - I'm seriously lusting for it - again, another discussion). So personally I think the benefits outweigh the drawbacks. But it's up to the members to give it a shot and see it where it goes. Vamsee. _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
