[H-GEN] Who are we? What are we doing? How did it come to this?

[Thorne, Stephen]

Hi!

With the recent discussion of open formats on the mailing list, I was
wondering what list I was posting to, and I remembered that it was the
HUMBUG mailing list. The Unix one.

So um. Lets talk about that.

Who are we? We're the Home Unix Machine Brisbane Users Group. This is
very approximate, for various values of 'Unix', 'Home' and 'Brisbane'.

What are we doing? Apparently we're salivating over the idea of open
formats, railing against the patent machine, and promoting the ideals
of the FSF and RMS. We're also wondering why the heck we're doing
that. We're also publishing information about linux. (that's just this
week).

How did it come to this? Well, years of Linux being the one true home
unix OS. BSD going into decline, and years of referring to 'Solaris'
as 'Slowaris' and generalized scoffing at HP/UX. Plus SCO.

Some questions I come to, with the dissonance I see from the earlier
questions I pose, I come to this question:
 - Is it acceptable to expect the ideals of Open Source or Free
Software to be followed by other members of our group?

Stephen Thorne.