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Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] KDE Promotional Discs and Freedom
From:       Charles de Miramon <cmiramon () kde-france ! org>
Date:       2003-05-12 10:41:52
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Le Lundi 12 Mai 2003 00:55, Neil Stevens a écrit :
> Forget definitions of free software, the reasons to care about software
> licensing, and all the politics arguments surrounding them.  Sure, it's
> important, but it's all irrelevant here.
> 

In my opinion a more positive move than taking away the few non-free programs 
would be to put on the Knoppix-KDE a document explaining to the lay man the 
goal of Free Software, the GNU philosophy, the position of the KDE project on 
this topic and what can be done to promote free software.

If I find time (which I doubt), I'll try to write something like that. But 
they are people more knowledgeable than me that could do that faster and 
better than I.

I'm also a bit controversial, but I would not mind putting some commercial 
demos of programs running under KDE (for example Codeweawers Wine) on the 
Knoppix CD or a list of IT consultants specialists in KDE. This CD is not 
another Linux distribution, it is a promotion tool to show that you can adopt 
KDE in your enterprise to do your work. If that means buying a commercial 
software that is vital for your need, let people know that this program exist 
and make their own conscious choice.

Cheers,
Charles
-- 
cmiramon@kde-france.org
http://www.kde-france.org

 
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