That works great when you have enough time, money, and can travel to their buildings. I could get to the Red Hat building, but they're on our side, for right now. For the rest of us, e-mails and letters will have to suffice.
But you are right. Jacob > Jacob Maynard wrote: >> Right, but we're talking about 8 months since Novell turned coat. In 8 >> months, can all of the free developers (I refrain from saying >> open-source >> because of the separate ideals, though open-source could join in) get >> together and enhance the capabilities of a truly free system to the >> point >> that there is no need for proprietary anything and is not uncomfortable >> to >> switch to from Windows systems? I have no doubts that it COULD happen, I >> just don't think that it WILL happen. Given time and a clear objective, >> plus a worldwide collaboration, a system could be made to fit these >> guidelines. But we have to be realistic about it. >> >> So, if another company does this in another 8 months, we're in even >> bigger >> trouble. Our timeline gets shortened to develop a distribution that will >> encourage the general populace to turn from Windows. And we have to have >> that to keep GNU/Linux free and accomplish our objectives. >> >> Jacob >> >> > in my own opinion, we already have the systems one of them is gNewSense > what we *do* need is for people > to develop and reverse engineer the drivers and groups of activist > throwing a lot of pressure to company's, and when I say pressure > I am not talking about sending them emails, I'm talking about real > activism, in front of their buildings and such, this has worked well for > other movements. > > Chris F. > > -- > FSF member #697 > BinaryFreedom Founder > gNewSense Developer. > Digital Rights! > Free Speech! > Free Software!!!!!! > Take back the NET! > > _______________________________________________ > Advocate mailing list > [email protected] > http://badvista.fsf.org/mailman/listinfo/advocate > _______________________________________________ Advocate mailing list [email protected] http://badvista.fsf.org/mailman/listinfo/advocate
