Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Stuart Langridge's Talk on Free Software

[Tim Dobson]

Dave Page wrote:
> I think the central message of "don't bollock the users" is something we
> can all try to do less

I think an intewrsting question is when does a user become a power-user 
or a 133T hAx0r.
Should we not bollock users or should we not bollock anyone?
is a user anyone who uses it?
or is a user someone who *just uses*
if someone just "uses" the gpl version of QT - are they still a user and 
immune from bollocking about using skype as primary communication medium?

so in the context of stuarts phrase - i really want to know what we are 
defining as "users"

I think it is important not to be overly unfriendly to anyone (and that 
include microsoft, george bush, osama bin laden and "open source" 
activists) but at what level does not activly encouraging people not to 
use non-free software take president over everything else?

-Tim


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