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Time for Coders to Get Political?

Posted by dcparris on · 2 comments
Linux Journal; By Glyn Moody
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When I interviewed Richard Stallman back in 1999, he had some interesting thoughts on the subject of freedom:

I'm going to keep working on the free software movement, because I don't see who's going to replace me, and I don't see how I could do something more important in some other area. The issues of freedom that everybody's heard of are much more important than this - freedom of speech, freedom of the press, free assembly. The reason I'm not more involved with them is that I don't know what to do about them very effectively.

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Everyone give RMS and the opensource movement the support he and they all need. Send mails to the french goverment and to your own authorities. Make your speech heard.

I think the ero of people that only writes codes is over. We need to lobby too as the big ones. And think a little. If we add everyone involved in the opensource movement then we are HUGE
We've (Lobby4Linux) has been banging away at that idea for years...its like pushing a glacier. My man is right, until we get someone "famous" behind us or are able to mount the Nation-wide Linux ad campaign...we are spinning our wheels. Here is the sad part. I was able to raise 10 grand in less than 8 hours...and then had to give it back. We couldn't find anyone to administrate the funds.

Major news outlets, npr, radio, we have contacted them all and it has been, "ho hum...can it make anything explode?" Someone will finally snap at the network one day and break the story:

"Revolutionary Linux Live Disk demolishes the playing field." There will be a world-wide collective groan, something akin to a penguin with gas.

how sad is that?

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