Re: [Fsfe-uk] What needs to be done.

[Alistair Davidson]

MJ Ray wrote:

> Alistair Davidson <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > How about we forget about all this "executive" nonsense and just run the 
> > whole thing as a huge game of Nomic? ;0)
>
> That probably needs explaining for me to understand. :-/
Nomic is an extremely geeky game,where altering the rules is the only 
move you can make (at least, at first). 
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/nomic.htm is the creator's home page. My 
suggestion was a joke, of course :)

> Alistair Davidson <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Looked okay to me. Personally, I prefer "British" also. Generally, 
> > organisations tend to name themselves that way, so we have British 
> > Airways and British Telecom and so on, not UK Airways and UK Telecom.
>
> AirUK?
There's an AirUK?

Ah well, exception that proves the rule and all that... ;)

> > You suggested the British Association for the Freedoms of Software. 
> > That's a good name, though I'm not sure whether freedom should be 
> > plural. I also like "British Association for Software Freedom", but 
> > there's not much difference.
>
> There are plural freedoms.  I'm also unsure about "Freedoms of
> Software" as against "Software Freedom", but I think we might get a
> bit of trouble if we try to call ourselves BASF.  ;-)
Heehee, that's true.

While I'm posting anyway, I'm sure that everyone will be pleased to here 
that I now have Linux sitting in another partition on this box. As soon 
as I can get the modem working I'll prove it with headers :0)))


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