[DS-discuss]Re: your mail

[Suraj Kumar]

Rahul Sundaram wrote on Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:38:24PM +0100: 
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| right there regardless of whether  fsf holds a a/c or not.what exactly
| are your concerns. what do you think  that the fsf would want us to do
| that we dont agree ourselves.
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There is going to be clear  track of what money address@hidden earnt for
itself and what money  was funded by FSF. So even if  this is going to
happen we can show accounts and  take back whatever funds that we have
brought in. This is not a problem at all, IMO.

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| * use of term free software
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Can you please elaborate on this?

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| would i get banned by the group for this?.can fsf force the team to do
| things it doesnt want to do?
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I donot think so. Infact FSFI never says that you _should_ call the OS
as GNU/Linux. It only says that you  do a favour to them by calling it
GNU/Linux. 

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| another concern is funding and support. i am looking for a job where i
| can work for  swantira software. if fsf does fund me  i would be doing
| this  fulltime.(no kidding).would  address@hidden stand  self sufficient
| without fsf?
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a very  valid question. more than  merely the ability to  work on free
software should  be the encouragement that individuals  get by working
on it.  Maybe someday  when address@hidden  goes big it  may be  able to
afford one or two technical writers.

  -Suraj

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