[BadVista Advocate] World to Warner: Wake up!

[Don Hensley]

On Thursday 03 May 2007 10:33 am, Lam YongXian wrote:
"At least it is better than sitting around doing nothing"

That's true.

Here's an idea, for anyone, but especially if they are a student:

Ask to give a talk to any club (math clubs, computer clubs, etc., are going to 
be fertile ground, but even Glee Club if they want to listen), on "How can a 
company believe it owns a number" or any title to that effect.

Or any of the subject we all on this list are interested in promoting, it need 
not be just about DRM, but that's a good place to get peoples attention. 
Which may at least expose them to Free Software ideals.

Hand out small booklets --make them yourself. They need be nothing more then 
stapled together pages copied straight off any of the GNU.org pages or any 
source released under that type license.

If you can write something on your own, so much the better, but do not 
hesitate to use the good words that are already available for exactly this 
sort of use.

Even your talk can be straight from any of the works of RMS or at FSF or the 
GNU project, where the right to copy in any medium has been granted (that's 
just reciting it too!), so long as the attribution is retained.

And you will be surprised about how easy this sort of thing is to do.

Even some massive changes of your own to a document released under the The GNU 
Free Documentation License can be arranged if the cause is acceptable.

For example, here is something I wrote for The International Pixel-Stained 
Technopeasant Day protest: http://donhensley.com/right-to-write.html

I got permission from RMS to do this satire (not because of my wonderful 
prose, but because he agreed with the reason I was doing it).

I wouldn't have bothered him, save I was reasonably sure that the issue was 
one he would take some interest in. You can read about the issue here 
http://duskpeterson.com/technopeasant/

The point is that just about everyone will encourage any activity that will 
put the cause forward. But if what you have in mind is unusual you might want 
to check with whoever holds the copyleft first, is all.

So go for it. Posters, speeches, flyer's, etc. Just think your actions and 
statements through first.

I once was doing some political stuff and had got a bunch of students from the 
local high school to put out flyer's over the week end... well some of them, 
with good intentions, but not thinking about how it might be received, put 
them under the windscreen wipers of automobiles parked at the local churches 
that Sunday morning --bad idea.

So pick you actions with care, but do go for it!

Don.
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 On Thursday 03 May 2007 10:33 am, Lam YongXian wrote:
At least it is better than sitting around doing nothing =)

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