[Cialug] software freedom day

afan pasalic afan at afan.net
Fri Jul 25 07:59:07 CDT 2008


Maybe could be good to show people "difference" between:
The Gimp vs. Photoshop
OpenOffice.org vs. MS Office
Gwenview vs. ACDSee
Qunata+ vs Dreamweaver
k3b vs. Nero
or something like that? Show a list of Windows apps and their
opensource/free "versions"?

-afan


Theron Conrey wrote:
>>> Quote from Jeff:
>>> You can also provide a CD with less open, but still free software such as ClamAv, Panda, Avast AV, Spybot, Hijack this, stuff not included on the first >>disc, etc, etc.
>>> Jeff
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> I think that if we are going to register our team from software freedom day, we ought to make sure that we are all talking free software with a big F.  I know that ClamAV is GPL, but I'm pretty sure none of that other software is Free, just available at zero cost.  It would be a good idea for everyone to fully read the Software Freedom about page to fully understand the spirit of the day.  If you want to do a "help windows users move to Linux or use no cost software day"  that's fine, but let's not use http://softwarefreedomday.org/SoftwareFreedom Software Freedom day to do that.
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> This is a day about Free software.  If we want to do something else, fine, let's just not do it on this day, or just call it what it is.
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> Oh, and if I'm back in town from a work trip, I'll help do either day we decide to do.
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> -Theron
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