Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 01:02:37AM +0000, Jimmy O'Regan wrote:
An organisation that sets out to promote only free software is going to face more difficulty than an organisation promoting open source, or an organisation promoting both; open source has mind share, and a larger amount of people willing to promote it.
We dissagree and don't seem capable of convincing eachother to switch positions. (end or sub-thread?)
Your last sentence is one that I could spend hours argueing against. I've seen lesser debates grind an org to a halt. I've done the FS/OSS/both debate a hundred times. I'm bored of it and I know it's a time killer. I just want to get good work done.
I'm all for that. (As a side effect, it'd make your point by demonstration :)
FS is my thing, and I'm gonna work damn hard at it. If others also want to work on FS issues, then I'd like to form an FS org to coordinate our work and facilitate others who'd like to get started.
From the list, and even moreso from the meetings, I know there are
others that have the same goal. So it will happen, and when we are fighting common enemys such as software patents, I hope OSS people will assist us. Or if an OSS org forms, I hope we can work together on common fights.
That's basically what I was looking for. Clear goals and a will to achieve them are two of the most important thing needed to begin a quest; I commend you on having both and would be happy to help in any way I can.