On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Dibu Philip <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Why is it that the group that supports and stands for Freedom, do not
> provide the basic Freedom of speech and expression? I read that those
> planning to take a session on the anniversary day were to abide by this
> rule:' presentations must not talk/promote/mention/discuss about proprietary
> software
>  unless it becomes totally impossible to continue the topic without
> discussing'
>  If Libre user group doesn't give its members the basic Freedom, who else
> willl?
>
> Let me ask you, how many of the members would be using a distro listed in
> www.gnu.org/distros ? Most of us either use Debian, Ubuntu etc. Once I
>

That page is just a joke :-)
He says

"BSD systems refer to proprietary drivers as “blobs” and some have
policies against including these. That is good, but unfortunately no
BSD system has policies against proprietary binary-only firmware that
might be loaded even by free drivers."

and look at this page

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

His emacs not only has no policies against proprietary platforms but
**ACTUALLY  CONTAINS CODE TO RUN THE SOFTWARE ON WINDOWS" thus
encouraging people to use MS Windows when it comes to his software :-D

Hippocrite!

--Siju

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