[PLUG] FOSS Activity and Non-Technical People

[Shakthi Kannan]

Hi,

--- On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Vinayak Kulkarni
<kulkarnivd2007 at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
| But I think that the freedom they wanted was quiet right
| at their era, because computers were used by mostly technical people.
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Nope. They care for end users as well. That is why GPLv3 and AGPLv3
licenses were introduced.

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| But in today s world even common public is also
| using the computer I mean Non-Technical personals
|  also using the computers for their general work.
| And more importantly, Thing about software
| that it is Free or Paid does not matter to them
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Ignorance is bliss? :)

I am sure it will matter to them if they are made *aware* of what
proprietary software can do remotely with data on their systems
without them knowing about it.

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| So there seems to be limitation over spreading of FOSS software.
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F/OSS exists everywhere. Just that people are not aware that it is
actually F/OSS.

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| The condition I described above, does not mean that
| I am against FOSS. But I think, I have expressed whatever I wanted.
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You are welcome to express your opinion.

Regards,

SK

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Shakthi Kannan
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