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

[roy.evison]

---- Leslie I'Anson <address@hidden> wrote: 
> 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.
> All this might be of interest:

http://www.v3.co.uk/vnunet/news/2119816/microsoft-swings-axe-linux-funding
 
Roy.
> 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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