Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Mission statement - request for comments

[Michael Dorrington]

Simon Ward wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:34:01AM +0100, Tim Dobson wrote:
> > As far as I'm aware, we are not a GLUG  (GNU/Linux User Group).
>
> No.  That doesn’t stop it from being a major topic.  GNU/Linux is the
> most widely known and used free software system to my knowledge.

But does that mean we should mention it in the Mission statement? Many 
of those GNU/Linux systems are run by users that don't care about free 
software and happily install non-free software on their systems. I'd 
have more solidarity with someone choosing to use Firefox and OpenOffice 
because they are free software but running on Microsoft Windows because 
they aren't ready to make the switch yet. Compared to someone running 
"GNU/Linux" with no interest in free software and unconcerned with 
installing non-free software.

M.