Comments on: Eye-openings at Congreso Hispalinux

By: juantomas

juantomas — Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thank you very much for your comment. We really thanks you travelled to Spain and give us all a lot of experience to keep working in this amazing project that is free software and the real digital revolution.

We thanks you to start Debian and the more important the “Debian community social spirit” ;-)

Juantom

By: teo

teo — Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

They don’t really have a point, actually they are afraid and don’t know how to atack. That’s a big danger, but we’ll make it.

Hey, and stay connected to what Andaluc

By: Ismael

Ismael — Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks for your words. If we at Spain failed in something, maybe was about spreading our works and successes. Maybe now it’s gonna change thanks to you and others who meet what is really happening at this side of the planet and are telling it to the rest :-)

By: vigu

vigu — Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ian, thank you very much for Debian, the community, the idea.

Andalucia and Extremadura are becomming your common project, Linex (Extremadura) and Guadalinex (Andalucia) are being joined.

We want to change the world, really!, do you want to help us? :-)

By: Death Master

Death Master — Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I just want to say thanks by yout comment.
When I was at your speech about how debian was born, and we all were surrounded bye people “feeling” that spirit that has become the open source movement, I thought that indeed this is a war -whatever kind of…-. It’s not a hopeful though, but as you say, this was began by those who now pretend not to see it.
It’s a shame that all this ends in just Microsoft versus Linux, but if that’s the way it’s meant to be, I think that anyone can see that spirit, team work and in one word: Linux, will go on over all the problems that can come to pass, but Microsoft, sooner or later, will be consumed by its own empire, by that “thing” they built and they grew.
Thanks again, and I agree that Congreso Hispalinux was an exciting experience. I’m happy about the feelings you got from our country.
See you, un saludo.

By: Dan Hunt

Dan Hunt — Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I have not mentioned this before, thanks for your efforts and vision in the advancement of software I use everyday.

Your closing remarks mention that you are “actively trying to build a business around Linux”. I must introduce you to my thoughts about the word “try”.

Brian Tracy is a motivational speaker from California. His take on the word try is this. It is used generally to denote an expectation of failure. When others say that they will try, they are saying “no”. They will say: “I’ll try”; but they think after saying it: “but I know I will fail”.

Ian Murdock is building a business around Linux.

By: Gonzalo

Gonzalo — Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ian,

I am one of the dreamers who has been inspired by folks like you and Richard and Linux, and Moglen and Morton and…

You get the idea…

This is why I have given so much of my time to teach others, write documentation and code. As a native Spaniard who has been living in the US for seven years, I often have felt that it was strange for Linux to have its birth cradle in the US -admittedly with contributions from all over the world, but tha’s where it first became widespread – and yet so much has been lost recently of what made Linux truly great and what made LInux possible.

I do agree that that spirit lives on and Spain provides a test case of what is possible. I will be moving to Spain next year and hope to be able to contribute what the past few years of experience have taught me.

Hope to see you in Spain soon.

Best,

Gonzalo

By: Red-voluci

Red-voluci — Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Aqui fue donde se me ocurrio la idea de hacer un blog

Ian Murdock’s Weblog: Eye-openings at Congreso Hispalinux…