Re: Appropriate LUG Topics

 "Michael" == Michael Bond <[email protected]> writes:

  Michael> 1) Anything Involving Linux, BSD, etc ...
  Michael> 2) Running Microsoft Office on Linux with wine or crossover
  Michael>    office
  Michael> 3) OpenOffice.Org, Gimp, and any other GPL (or other Free
  Michael>    license)
  Michael> Running on Windows, MacOS X, BeOS, Solaris, etc ...
  Michael> 4) Topics that concern Free software, licenses and copy
  Michael>    rights.
  Michael> 5) Just about any programming topics, thought I would
  Michael>    prefer not to
  Michael> discuss visual basic in an MS Application.
  Michael> 6) Many others ...

I personally don't like talking about running proprietary software on
linux in order to use proprietary software on linux (the crossover for
MS Office case) but I won't fight that. And for visual basic, I don't
see visual basic .NET and only .NET because that's a practically a
completely different language and will be supported in Mono. Other
then that, I agree.

I'd like to add that I think bringing Lawrence Lessig on to the board
of the FSF marked a turning point in the framing of free software in
the larger context of free culture and free society and I feel that
those larger topics are also welcome to be discussed on this
list. Even if they are not computing specific, I believe a majority of
the readership here is interested in them.

And I should really start using this channel to drum up some folks to
help me with some Hurd/L4 work ;)
-- 
  David D. Smith
A man without doubt is a monster.

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