"Everything that is Linux based"
But that doesn't override for most part with minor exceptions "NO SELF
PROMOTION on the LIST" I suppose.
OFF-LIST is different (Its between sender and receiver).
> Having settled this, although people on the other side (free software
> only) did try to hijack the discussion and the group, but it seems that
> the group is settling down to the decision taken.
Free Software is not monopolistic -- it stands for freedom of choice.
Free Software advocates free alternatives and freedom that comes
associated with it.
It is the freedom that Free Software provides to Commercial Software
makers that they can use GTK+/GNOME libraries to create Commercial
Software and yet not be constrained to make the software free.
> So, that aspect is settled.
Settled !!! This is a dynamically changing world. Lets vote again this
time without disenfranchising anyone (26 is to 5 LUG-Delhi has more
than a thousand members). And before we vote lets discuss pros and cons
threadbare on the list so that people know/and can decide what they are
voting for.
"LINUX grows and that it grows to become the number one Operating System... for ...
the majority of users"
That is the idea.
> For this to happen, LUGs have an important role to play and at times
> members here have wondered whether the Delhi LUG is a voluntary group
> belonging to all the members or just a small group that is trying to
> hijack Linux and make the group to be "free software group".
No doubt it belongs to all Linux Users.
> As it came in the "heated discussions", both these aspects (everything
> Linux and Free software) can be together as part of the group.
> But, ofcourse, if those who want a "separate and pure free software
> group", they have the full liberty to form one. But, in that case, they
> have no right to hijack the Linux Users Group (the Delhi LUG) and they
> will have to form their own separate group, calling it whatever they
> like.
> I for one, am for coexistance and reconciliation.
Ideas that can't/won't even stand on their feet in heated meeting
rooms/mailing lists are not good enough.
<moral> Slug it out in open -- No feel good niceties covering the real
meaning </moral>
>
> I hope, as time passes, we, as LUG will grow to become a more and more
> cohesive team, working together, as much as each one can contribute,
Cohesive teams are for building Cathedrals(good for Companies making
proprietary software) not bazaars(Free Softwares).
Tarun Dua
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