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[Sarah Walters]

Well said James!

2009/1/14 James Lever <j at jamver.id.au>

> I would like to think that HUMBUG has not explicitly and exclusively
> moved to being about just OSS.  This would directly rule out anybody
> who uses anything that is not NetBSD, FreeBSD, Linux and their direct
> friends.
>
> Solaris and OpenSolaris, Digital Unix , AIX, IRIX, Pyramid....
> etc....  I know that not many people actually use those in comparison
> to _Linux_, but please, think of the reasons HUMBUG was created.
>
> OSS is good, but it is not the only solution or answer in this world.
> It might be a good central focus of the group, but not exclusively and
> not to alienate people whose *nix preferences lie elsewhere.
>

It's the Home Unix Machine Brisbane User Group. There is NOTHING in that
name that says anything about open source software. HUMBUG was historically
a user group for people who use a Unix variant at home. If the majority
feels that it should be about open source software instead then fine, change
the name. But while I agree that welcoming new members is important, running
Firefox on Windows is not what HUMBUG is about.

If you want to make HUMBUG more welcoming to newbies, then running less
technical talks, along the lines of "Linux for Windows users" would be very
advantageous.

 Sarah
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