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DATE | 2015-08-09 |
FROM | Ruben Safir
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SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Fwd: [NJLinux] Software Freedom Day
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From owner-hangout-outgoing-at-mrbrklyn.com Sun Aug 9 22:02:50 2015 Return-Path: X-Original-To: archive-at-mrbrklyn.com Delivered-To: archive-at-mrbrklyn.com Received: by mrbrklyn.com (Postfix) id 35EFE16116B; Sun, 9 Aug 2015 22:02:50 -0400 (EDT) Delivered-To: hangout-outgoing-at-mrbrklyn.com Received: by mrbrklyn.com (Postfix, from userid 28) id 1F1031612E9; Sun, 9 Aug 2015 22:02:50 -0400 (EDT) Delivered-To: hangout-at-nylxs.com Received: from mailbackend.panix.com (mailbackend.panix.com [166.84.1.89]) by mrbrklyn.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B92F616116B for ; Sun, 9 Aug 2015 22:02:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from panix2.panix.com (panix2.panix.com [166.84.1.2]) by mailbackend.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3541168BF for ; Sun, 9 Aug 2015 22:02:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: by panix2.panix.com (Postfix, from userid 20529) id A2D7333C81; Sun, 9 Aug 2015 22:02:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2015 22:02:22 -0400 From: Ruben Safir To: hangout-at-nylxs.com Subject: Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Fwd: [NJLinux] Software Freedom Day Message-ID: <20150810020222.GA19542-at-panix.com> References: <2062299218.1438890548062.JavaMail.nobody-at-james1.pvt.meetup.com> <55C4EEEF.3020201-at-panix.com> <20150807214322.GA16685-at-linuxmafia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150807214322.GA16685-at-linuxmafia.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hangout-at-nylxs.com [NYLXS: HANGOUT] X-BeenThere: hangout-at-nylxs.com X-Mailing-list: hangout-at-nylxs.com Precedence: list List-Id: NYLXS General Discussion Forum List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe:
On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 02:43:22PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: > > Other people's experience may differ, but, in my neck of the woods, > Software Freedom Day -- when I checked into it, several years in a row > -- turned out to overwhelmingly (to the exclusion of just about > everything else) about dispensing open source / free software > applications coiled for Win32 to MS-Windows users.
We had some of that. I had the pleasure of knowing, however, that if you installed all the X11 and WMAKER stuff on 295 that it would eventually cause the system to crash, not a huge accomplish mid you but still.
When I was stuck in the Pharmacy beihind a Wintel box, that disk actually came in handy. But FWIW, Evan used to punch out a bunch of SuSE live disk, and Knopix and whatever his little CD Burn could churn out cladestically at work, and we gave out a bunch of those disks and made some members.
Ruben
> > At the time, much of the activity centered around a CDR image called > OpenCD, which was entirely MS-Windows desktop applications. > > That project has been unmaintained since a schism in 2007 and problems > involving sponsor Canonical, Ltd.: > http://web.archive.org/web/20150403213028/http://www.chrisgray.me/2007/09/mutiny-aboard-the-good-ship-theopencd/ > > (There's a successor project, OpenDisc, that is likewise limited to > Win32 desktop software.) > > > Obviously, views differ widely on this, but I personally have better > things to do with my time than helping MS-Windows users redecorate their > prison cells. Of course, it's entirely possible that the focus and > activities of Software Freedom Day differs between years and between > locations -- but I thought I'd mention the issue, as it reportedlhas > been front and centre at least usually, and for all I know maybe always.
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