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

[Michael Dorrington]

Simon Ward wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 09:20:06PM +0100, Michael Dorrington wrote:
> > 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.
>
> There are also likely many people who don’t know that much about the
> free aspects of their system, may see it and want to learn more.

I would hope that to be the case. I don't know how that affects having 
GNU/Linux our Mission statement though. They could learn about free 
software by using Firefox, which I suspect has many more users than 
GNU/Linux. And is the most likely way of getting people into free software.

M.