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DATE | 2015-08-07 |
FROM | Rick Moen
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SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Fwd: [NJLinux] Software Freedom Day
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Other people's experience may differ, but, in my neck of the woods, Software Freedom Day -- when I checked into it, several years in a row -- turned out to overwhelmingly (to the exclusion of just about everything else) about dispensing open source / free software applications coiled for Win32 to MS-Windows users.
At the time, much of the activity centered around a CDR image called OpenCD, which was entirely MS-Windows desktop applications.
That project has been unmaintained since a schism in 2007 and problems involving sponsor Canonical, Ltd.: http://web.archive.org/web/20150403213028/http://www.chrisgray.me/2007/09/mutiny-aboard-the-good-ship-theopencd/
(There's a successor project, OpenDisc, that is likewise limited to Win32 desktop software.)
Obviously, views differ widely on this, but I personally have better things to do with my time than helping MS-Windows users redecorate their prison cells. Of course, it's entirely possible that the focus and activities of Software Freedom Day differs between years and between locations -- but I thought I'd mention the issue, as it reportedlhas been front and centre at least usually, and for all I know maybe always.
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