On 07/06/2012 01:41 PM, kenneth gonsalves wrote: > On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 08:57 +0530, 0 wrote: >> IMO, The article was more about Apple and its IP policy in general. >> The >> comments sections in the article throw more light on this. Although >> an >> interesting read, I thought it was OT. I could be wrong. > > depends on the definition OT for this group. The group is not a > homogeneous group with a single well defined aim. It is a loose alliance > of several different types of focus. I see it like this: > > 1. It is a linux users' group - so obviously any discussion of linux and > linux based stuff is not OT. > > 2. We have a large number of adherents to the Free Software movement, so > any discussion of this - including discussions of the wider concerns of > the Free Software Movement like DRM etc is not OT. > > 3. We also have a large number of Open Source enthusiasts - so > discussion of these topics, including the ongoing debate between open > source and free software is also on topic. > > 4. In addition we have users of various BSD and unix flavours. > > 5. As a consequence of the above, discussion of any open source > language, toolkit and framework is also ok. > > 6. And advocacy of all the above also implies that criticism of > companies and ideas that are contrary to the above is also on topic. > > I would say that the post under consideration falls fairly under points > 2 and 6 above and is not OT.
I agree with you that the above mentioned points are relevant to the list in some way, but where do we draw the line ? I am sure, there are going to a bunch of news articles every day on DRM, patents, copyright etc. For example, the recent controversy over Blizzard and Diablo III on GNU/Linux (over wine), http://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/07/03/updated-diablo-iii-linux-users-banned-blizzard-using-wine Because, GNU/Linux users are affected, one can claim it to be relevant to the list but I just consider it to be news and would add an [OT] tag. IMO, The reason for [OT] tag is to help members in the list to skip emails of least importance/relevance and to enable discussions which are subjective without any end goal. Just my 2 cents. -- 0 _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
