On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 1:06 PM, V. Sasi Kumar<sasi....@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 12:36 +0530, Rajeev J Sebastian wrote: >> >> Whats even more disturbing of course, is that this group used the >> "non-free" Google Groups in the first place :P > > I think the issue raised by aniyathikutty is worth being discussed. Many > new groups use the facilities in Google or Yahoo because it gives > several conveniences, the most important being that it does not need a > website to be set up. Anyone can start a group easily. At the same time, > I think it is desirable that a Free Software group uses, of course, Free > Software :-) That means that we need to have space on a server. So, the > best thing to do would be to find out whether we can find space > somewhere, if possible without payment (since we don't collect money for > such purposes). I will try to see if we can do that. In that case, I > think we should move to a Free Software based list. This is certainly > not a question of convenience, but of principle.
I think its a bit too late to talk about "principle" ... its been atleast a year or more since this so-called "free software" group has been using non-free software for its basic activities. As for me ... I don't mind using Google Groups at all. Regards Rajeev J Sebastian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
