Yes I believe we should. The reach of the *nix community is huge and as a 'grass roots' "organisation" is capable of making a significant impact. Whether one sees this as a political movement or a religion is irrelevant IMHO. This is about educating people to think and to question rather than simply accept (in this case Microsoft's largesse in giving away access to their proprietary software tools). However because of the'ragged' nature of our "organisation" it's unlikely to have the discipline to achieve much of an impact without having imposed some form of strategic plan and that dear friends is about as likely as Microsoft OS being released under a GNU public licence. I'd be happy to be proven wrong on this so feel free to set the record straight!:-)
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Yes I believe we should. The reach of the *nix community is huge and as a 'grass roots' "organisation" is capable of making a significant impact. Whether one sees this as a political movement or a religion is irrelevant IMHO. This is about educating people to think and to question rather than simply accept (in this case Microsoft's largesse in giving away access to their proprietary software tools). However because of the'ragged' nature of our "organisation" it's unlikely to have the discipline to achieve much of an impact without having imposed some form of strategic plan and that dear friends is about as likely as Microsoft OS being released under a GNU public licence. I'd be happy to be proven wrong on this so feel free to set the record straight! :-)