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

[Simon Ward]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 09:30:58PM +0100, Michael Dorrington wrote:
>> Manchester Free Software serves a growing need for a group in the
>> Manchester area that focuses on free software, including GNU/Linux.
>> The group also covers topics which impact on the freedoms of computer
>> users, such as Digital Restrictions Management.
>
> I'll have to disagree. :)

So:

    Manchester Free Software serves a growing need for a group in
    the Manchester area that focuses on free software.  The group
    also covers topics which impact on the freedoms of computer
    users, such as Digital Restrictions Management.

I don’t feel “copyleft” or any other subset of free software is worth
mentioning if GNU/Linux isn’t, and I don’t think we can mention them
all, in the same way as Mozilla/VLC/KDE/QT/X/GNU/Linux (or whatever
floats it for you).

If we’re really trimming it down, we should also remove the example
topic of Digital Restrictions Management:

    Manchester Free Software serves a growing need for a group in
    the Manchester area that focuses on free software.  The group
    also covers topics which impact on the freedoms of computer
    users.

It’s concise, and doesn’t say more than we need to, but where does that
leave people who won’t have the slightest clue that it affects them?

Simon
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