[Scale-planning] Free Software Representation at SCaLE

[Lei Zhang]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:36:30PM -0800, Steve M Bibayoff wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Lei Zhang <leiz at ucla.edu> wrote:
> 
> > In my mind, Free Software is a strict subset of Open Source software,
> 
> They are different sets, but tend to encompass the same goals,. This
> link has been pointed out already:
> "Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software"
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html

Thanks you Mark and Steve for pointing this out.

> > I did not see their booths this year. I'm not in charge of the booth,
> > but I doubt SCALE would tell the FSF they can't come. The more likely
> > reason is the FSF did not send people to man their booth this year.
> > One volunteer I know from the FSF was here, but that person no longer
> > works for the FSF.
> 
> If you are talking about me, I never worked for the FSF, but the FSF
> did have a booth (thank you Garrett and SCALE) and I was there. There
> was 2 former employee's of the FSF that was at SCALE, so maybe you
> where thinking about them.
> 
> The FSF does have a, imho, a strange policy about not being listed at
> a conference that Linux and no "Free" in it's title. Maybe that was
> the reason the FSF was missed. If you really want to know why that
> policy is in place, I'll let you know.

Ah, I had forgotten about this policy. So SCALE probably had a FSF
booth every year.