Re: LUG: Open Source Fair - Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:14:35 -0400

Subject : Re: LUG: Open Source Fair

From : Jack Neely <jjneely@ncsu.[redacted]>

Date : Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:14:35 -0400

On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 02:53:59PM -0400, Nathaniel Jacob Schwartz wrote:
> I'd be in favor of such an event, but I would suggest calling it something
> slightly different, perhaps a software freedom fair, for instance. I hate to
> be cliche, but open source doesn't really bring out the importance of Free
> Software. Software Freedom does. Free Software fair would be confusing to
> people - they would expect free stuff.
>
> My primary interest in GNU/Linux is for the freedom rather than what you can
> and can not do with Free Software.
>
> - Nathaniel Schwartz

*nod*

I was definitely half way through writing the email and thinking "FOSS
Day" or "FOSS Fair." Hmm...alliteration...

Jack

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