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Re: [LUG] getgnulinux.org

 

Aaron Trevena wrote:

> You seem to be trying to.

Not at all. People will run whatever they like. It is not the 
point of free software groups or distributions to promote or 
distribute non-free softare.

> Linux was what it was called when I first started using it, because
> Linus created a basic operating system and bundled it with GNU stuff
> to make it useful.

Um, no... we're a GNU/Linux users group. What's so hard to 
understand there?

> Open Source is descriptive and easier to understand than Free Software
> and has less political connotations - for some reason rabid zealotry
> can put people off.

Most people know what software is compared to source code.

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