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Yavor Doganov wrote:
I generally agree with the notion of your message, but describing Free Software as a "good idea" is an extremely weak way to represent it.
Yavor, you're right. Free Software is more than a good idea. It's a fantastically important, revolutionary and immediately effective idea with enormous potential for changing society for the better.
Regarding the topic (the kernel developers' statement wrt GPLv3) I just reread RMS' and Eben Moglen's transcripts of their speeches at Barcelona and Bangalore -- they address all concerns that the Linux developers speak about so perhaps it's much better to point the people to those speeches.
Excellent point! This is exactly what I meant about finding practical ways to link people's concerns with the answers they need.
Perhaps - for the betterment of this thread - you could point out a few of key things RMS and Eben said.
Which links did you follow for the transcripts? Perhaps (just an idea) you could blog about the kernel developer concerns and point out these links?
Shane