Featuring comm sites on ILUGC

[BGa <BGa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hi Arun,

>	The emphasis isn't on "Free". I just thought, the fact that
>these corporate entities work with free software needed to be
>highlighted. How about plain "Local Resources" ?
Works for me :) We could put a little note on top doing the emphasis. 
Again, your call.

> => complain about bandwidth problems. I would like to see the lug site 
>become 
>	
>	I wasn't thinking about bandwidth. I just figured, like Asokan
>did earlier, that some may have reservations about ilugc associating
>with purely commercial ventures. 

As long as it is associated with Linux do we really _care_ wether it free 
or o/w? More importantly, speculations aside, do we have folks objecting 
to ilugc associating with purely commercial ventures? Will they please 
stand up and be counted... If there are any, I would personally like to 
have a _healthy_ debate on this issue, offline if you like... afaik, 
commerical ventures do not go against the spirit of the GNU/FSF/GPL/<insert 
you favorite TLA here>. 

Moreover, if we were to blindly adhere to this, we will have to ignore any 
explicitly-non-free work on Linux that is done by a 
company/corporate/individual... you see, there are those of us who have to 
put food on the table... no insult intended on those who have the luxury of 
not having to...

>Richard Stallman (the activist, not the programmer) may be one of a kind, 
but one 
>never knows, does one ? 
The question is : Does one care? ILUGc is about _us_. We as ilugc want to 
promote Linux. Period. Or am I missing a larger issue here?

> => a kind of 'portal' (arrgh! pls don't kill me!!), not the Netscape, 
MSN 
>	
>	ilugc needs a new web master :). 
>
You're not going to find anybody to take you up on that offer... You're 
doing just fine :) Keep up the good work. We all appreciate it. Really.

>> kind... for all kinds of Linux information. Would you fail to 
>> mention a book store that sells Linux books just because they charge for 
it?? 
>	
>	Like I said, /I/ have no problems with the idea.
let me rephrase it. Do "WE" as ILUGc object?
	
>> However I would give more visibility to a book store that gives 
>>discounts on Linux books... just MHO...
>	Sure, sure, name three :).
Don't you wish. *sigh*. Anybody?

Oh, and I have one more request, I know we do not plan the content of our 
meetings ahead, but, coud we put whatever sparse data we have on the agenda 
on the website?

BGa


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