Re: LUG: Open Source Fair - Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:58:36 -0400

Subject : Re: LUG: Open Source Fair

From : nisink@ncsu.[redacted]

Date : Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:58:36 -0400

That is a really good suggestion. In addition, most people don't know or
understand the advantages of free software, so informing the average
computer user how they can benefit from using free software would be a
good focal point for such an event.

> 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
>
> Jack Neely wrote:
>> One of the things that has been suggested many times is to have some
>> sort of Open Source Fair for the NCSU community.
>

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