[Ilugc] Re: FOSS Conference @ Chennai

[Manoj Srivastava]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:31:35 +0530, vivek khurana
<mailing.vivek at gmail.com> said:  

>  How about having a conference name without the words "free", "FOSS",
> "GNU" ? Enough of (un) conferences are happing in India with word
> Free/FOSS . Organizers should try an avoid using these commodity words

        So what exactly is the goal of the conference?  Just some people
 getting together to have fun? (in which case, why bring it up on a
 Linux mailing list?)  For it to be discussed on this forum, I would
 have thought that freedom would have been an integral part of the goal,
 so free software is not just a commodity phrase -- it is a foundational
 cause of such conferences.

        Are we beginning to lose sight of what drives free software?

        manoj
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