[Freegis-list] freegis entries ordered

[Stefano Maffulli]

Hi all,

I think it would be very important to explain in a few paragraphs the aims
and meaning of the FreeGIS initiative. This is because not so many people
can already discern Free (as in Free speech) from Free (as in Free bier)
<personal rant>Too bad English does not provide a unique way to identify
these concepts</>

In other words, FreeGIS is not as self explanatory as we may think. And I
especially think that there is not enough knowledge of the whole Free
Software movement in the public administration, in high school education,
in SMEs. IMHO we still need to push the concept of Free as we mean it (also
since M$ started to attack the FS movement, read Stallman's response
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-03-02-004-20-OP-CY-MS).

Regards
Stefano Maffulli

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>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: freegis-list-admin at intevation.de
>  [mailto:freegis-list-admin at intevation.de]On Behalf Of Jan-Oliver Wagner
>  Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 12:34 PM
>  To: freegis-list at intevation.de
>  Subject: Re: [Freegis-list] freegis entries ordered
>
>
>  On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 01:13:45PM -0300, Felipe G. Nievinski wrote:
>  > It would be good to have a small paragraph in the main page (above the
>  > software entries) explaining the project (ala About FreeGIS page).
>
>  I am not sure whether we should reserve space on the enrtry
>  page for something that should be self-explaining.
>
>  Perhaps a suitable sub title would make what you have in mind.
>  Any idea, comment?
>
>  Jan
>
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