Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Chorlton's Big Green Festival

[Leslie I'Anson]

Luke,

Aside from their being low-cost, decentralisation, citizen empowerment
and greater good links between the two, there are some interesting
free software/open source power saving projects [1] [2]. Although,
these days it would seem that anything can be argued, or indeed taxed,
on the "green" front.

L.

[1] http://www.lesswatts.org/
[2] ask a popular search engine for more...


On 15/01/2010, Luke Taylor <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I'll help out at that stall for a bit - although I haven't yet been pointed
> towards the environmental benefits of FOSS?? Surely Gnu/Linux being slightly
> more power efficient than windows doesn't count?
> Luke
>
>> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:39:20 +0000
>> Subject: Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Chorlton's Big Green Festival
>> From: address@hidden
>> To: address@hidden
>> CC: address@hidden
>>
>> I too am happy to help spread the freedom.
>>
>> On 14/01/2010, Michael Dorrington <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > Richard Smedley wrote:
>> >>
>> >>  Chorlton's Big Green Festival is on 27 March.
>> >> How about a stall highlighting the environmental
>> >> & community benefits of FOSS?
>> >>
>> >> http://www.en4m.org.uk/?q=node/1640
>> >>
>> >>  - Richard
>> >>
>> >
>> > I am happy to help on a stall promoting free software, which is about
>> > freedom. Speaking of which, I recommend watching this video,
>> > http://balance.fsf.org/video/fsf-2009-larrylessig.ogv .
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Mike.
>> > MFS Chair
>> >
>> >
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