My decision to leave LKLUG as I described in my previous post resulted in a few private mails and a few asking about it IRL. First of all I do NOT want to hurt LKLUG or any of the folks involved with in anyway. I continue to be friends with all of them and nothing has changed in that front. It is the place to find some of the finest local experts. As for the reasons I described I can no longer be part of it. If it would have been some other list I would simply and quietly have unsubscribed.
If you’re a new user and want to get involve and share views with all the other local experts, LKLUG is the right place to go. I’m not being part of it does not mean LKLUG an ugly place. And I would still recommend any Sri Lankan Linux enthusiast to be a part of LKLUG.
If you dig into the LKLUG list archives you could see that I have very different views about freedom and this whole licensing thing now. There was this one quote that changed my life in a profound way by Theo de Raadt.
We expose no ethic except our own of transitive freedom in sharing. We make no demands except credit.
Coming back to where I was, my decision to move out doesn’t mean that now I hate everyone and/or want to hurt LKLUG. Just the opposite. At the end of the day, it was a difficult decision for me.
Posted in lklug · November 9th, 2007 · Comments (0)
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