<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>I think you mean that it was posted here possibly because of it's "commercial purpose" therefore it should not belong on this discuss list, do I understand correctly? <br></span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Well sorry I was really not thinking about that at all. I have never met the people from the company but I know several really cool people from San Francisco Linux community who are very supportive of this small business scheme and how they do it.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>So my apologies to the ones who are inconvenient because of the email, I hope the rest will enjoy it.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>No offense to Matt Joyce, he got actually a point which many will make I think and he did it in a nice way which I appreciate.
<br></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>I really like the posts and I hope there will be more businesses like that! :-))<br></span></div><div> <br>Sincerely from Seoul,<br><br></div><div>Frantisek Algoldor Apfelbeck<br><br></div><div>biotechnologist&kvasir and hacker</div><br><br><div>http://www.frantisekapfelbeck.org</div><div><br><br></div><div>"There is no way to peace, peace is the way." Ghandi<br><br> <div style="font-family: bookman old style, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Matt Joyce <matt@nycresistor.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Frantisek Apfelbeck <algoldor@yahoo.com>; Hackerspaces General Discussion List <discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org> <br><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Christian Einfeldt <einfeldt@gmail.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, May 18, 2012 9:06 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [hackerspaces] Fw: [sf-lug] A beautiful picture involving computers<br> </font> </div> <br>
This may be the most well written spam e-mail I have ever received.<br><br>On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Frantisek Apfelbeck <<a ymailto="mailto:algoldor@yahoo.com" href="mailto:algoldor@yahoo.com">algoldor@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I think that both the picture and the description of it by Christian are<br>> really nice!<br>><br>> Sincerely,<br>><br>> Frantisek<br>><br>> ----- Forwarded Message -----<br>> From: Christian Einfeldt <<a ymailto="mailto:einfeldt@gmail.com" href="mailto:einfeldt@gmail.com">einfeldt@gmail.com</a>><br>> To: sf-lug <<a ymailto="mailto:sf-lug@linuxmafia.com" href="mailto:sf-lug@linuxmafia.com">sf-lug@linuxmafia.com</a>><br>> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 3:05 AM<br>> Subject: [sf-lug] A beautiful picture<br>><br>> Hi,<br>><br>> Beautiful thought for the day:<br>><br>> I just went to the Zareason home page for no reason other than to see what<br>> was
going on there, and I saw a beautiful picture there, one of the most<br>> beautiful pictures involving computers that I have seen in a long time:<br>><br>> http://zareason.com/shop/home.php<br>><br>> It is a shot of a child throwing a notebook computer up into the air. The<br>> notebook computer seems to be hovering over the child's hands, light as air.<br>> To me, the message is an emotional depiction of the joy of freedom. The<br>> shot is outside, and set against the backdrop of the San Francisco Bay<br>> Bridge and the San Francisco skyline on a beautiful blue day. The shot<br>> gives the impression of how freeing a light notebook computer can be. The<br>> child is smiling as if it is so much fun to float the computer over her<br>> head.<br>><br>> I found this picture to be wonderful because I have long felt that we in the<br>> free software world need to get better about
communicating the joy, love,<br>> and happiness that is represented by free software. Free software to me<br>> represents an incredible act of giving, and so I was happy to see a<br>> commercial provider like Zareason engage in this kind of outreach.<br>><br>> Imagine what a difference it would make if people thought of their computers<br>> as an expression of community, rather than as something that they have to<br>> put up with. Imagine how nice it would be if there were as much choice in<br>> notebook and desktop computing as there is in phones.<br>><br>> I am a huge fan of Zareason as a company because of their focus on reaching<br>> non-geeky users, and this picture seemed to capture that for me. So I just<br>> had to share it, in case others found it as beautiful as I did.<br>><br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> sf-lug mailing list<br>> <a
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