[svlug] Church of Linux?

[John Mark Walker]

Excerpts from Don Marti's message of Fri Nov 30 22:27:04 -0800 2007:
> The main point of actually getting church status is to
> help get students and faculty the right to use Linux
> and other Free Software at school -- bureaucrats don't
> want to face a complaint over not accomodating your
> religious beliefs.


Then call it the "Church of Free Software" - actually, weren't you
starting that org at some point? At first, I thought such an idea was
batshit crazy, but then I realized a couple of things:

1. free software is a way of living, perhaps not quite religion but it's
pretty damn close
2. having a "church" provides a convenient conduit for organizing around
political causes, ie. information rights, copyright reform, etc.

-JM