The social change towards using Free Software
vadania
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Sabato, 19 Gennaio 2008
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IF Microsoft or it's partners could do anything else to threaten us they would undoubtedly DO it right away and they would not let it linger. Also if this is the best they can do, then the rightful conclusion is that we are superior to them.
Read what Mahatma Gandhi said:
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." Wikiquote(This quote is also promoted by Red Hat.)
How do Gandhi's words apply to Linux: In 1996 Microsoft ignored Linux, in 2001 they laughed at us, now Microsoft fights us:
Google
search on NCSoft and Linux. Now they fear us as their most dreadful enemy. But how long can one company's greed and desire for domination can win against everybody's desire for freedom? Not indefinitely, that's for sure! And we're not going away!
See what Martin Luther King Jr. spoke
about fighting for social change:
As the days unfolded, however, the Christian doctrine of
love, operating through the Gandhian method of nonviolence, was one
of the most potent weapons available to the Negro in his struggle for
freedom. San
Francisco Chronicle
Like Gandhi and King, we also fight for social change: using Linux is ultimately a social activity,
helping others use Linux is also a social activity, developing Linux software is only more so.
Keep
fighting, be civil, helpful on forums and never despair. Linux and
free software was never in a better position than it is today. We
fought a long way, there is a long way ahead of us and we have to
keep it up! Do not be angry with Microsoft, relax and invite others
join the Linux party, it's so much fun!
