Who loves Free Software?

[Tobias Platen]

Hello,

I've read about the I-Love-Free-Software-Day one or two years ago and 
find it is a good idea.
I also tried to expand the tent to Free Culture[1] and I suggest to use 
the White Day(March 14)[2] to celebrate Free Culture.
White Day is celebrated mostly in Japan, of which manga-culture is 
mentioned in Lessing's book "Free Culture" [3].
Recently I decided to use free software to make music, and to support 
the C3S[4].
Sometimes I donate to "Free Culture" projects such as the Morevna 
Project[5].

Here is my quote:

"My lesson is we shouldn't underestimate what free software operating 
systems have achieved and how much they are ahead of proprietary 
systems. Software freedom is not primarily about advanced features or 
quality of software. But we can see that freedom and collaboration can 
achieve a lot despite all the well known problems."
Milan Zamazal - Emacs and Lilypond contributor

Tobias Platen


[1] http://freedomdefined.org/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Day
[3] http://www.free-culture.cc/freeculture.pdf
[4] https://www.c3s.cc/
[5] http://morevnaproject.org/

On 30.01.2014 19:20, Max Mehl wrote:
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> Hello together,
>
> we all love Free Software because one of its great advantages is the strenght of
> the community. We have great possibilities to influence the development of the
> tools we use by bug reports, issue trackers, and wish lists.
> I'm very sure you use some nice tools every day whose author's name you don't
> even know. Or you wrote some bug reports in an annoyed mood for software, but
> never thanked the author(s) for the good work?
>
> Don't worry, I don't want to make you feel bad about those things. But why not
> taking the opportunity to thank developers and contributors for their effort to
> ease and beautify our daily life on a day, many people use to show and celebrate
> love anyway?
> This Valentine's Day, we call on you to show your respect and appreciation to
> all or certain developers and contributors of Free Software. Think about the
> software you use or which made your life a lot easier and... hm, yes, what?
>
> We listed many examples how you can show your love for Free Software on
> http://ilovefs.org - using banners, hugging developers, wearing T-shirts, or
> (micro)blogging about it, it's your choice!
>
> *Get active*:
> You are following our mailing lists, so you already know that there're a lot of
> people loving Free Software and the idea behind it. But did you know that there
> are also many well-known politicians, artists, or journalists who appreciate
> Free Software? We want to collect quotes of those people on our special
> testimonial page [1].
> For this, I ask you to suggest (or better directly ask) people whose quote may
> fit into this page. This can be developers and public advocates of Free Software
> as well as actors, writers, or business people.
>
> Thank you very much, I'm very curious about your suggestions!
>
>
> Best regards,
> Max
>
>
> [1] http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2014/whylovefs.html
>
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