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Re: islam online asking for a live chat with arabeyes.



Salaam dear Muhammad,

First, I am not cc'ing arabeyes since I decided to work outside them as much 
as possible and don't want to break this rule.

Second, thanks for expressing the idea of not forcing a volunteer to learn 
something if he don't want to. Still, I doubt they can understand it :( I 
spent a lot of time trying to convince them I have translators who DON'T 
won't to learn how to use CVS and DO want to translate but the whole thing 
ended with me taking more PANADOL's ;)
I don't want to put my nose on the thread since you are a kinda man who knows 
how to express yourself clearly. They speak sometimes as if we are going to 
lose something if we left!

Third, and this is mainly why I am writing to you, Islamonline and other 
Islamic sites or generally speaking most of people on earth still don't know 
about Linux philosophy and why M$ is bad and doing harm to the world. You 
need to explain this to them. You need to tell them they shouldn't only 
support Explorer. You need to tell them about all the F's: Freedom, FireFox, 
Free programs, .... Please, don't lose this oppertunity to spread the word. 
We can't blame the ignorant. Even if their webmaster isn't convinced enought 
today, we gain two things: He would think about it; and Readers, if 
convinced, would be your second voice.

Two weeks ago I was interviewed at Orbit TV regarding Linux and Arabization. 
Surely, I don't like Orbit and I never watch it but I am targetting the 
audience. In short, if someone is doing bad, this doesn't mean we stop doing 
good. I know you know all of this but this is just to say I love if you go to 
the interview.


On Sunday 27 March 2005 14:45, Mohammed Sameer wrote:
> Yes, This is true. They are asking for a live chat with me and any one from
> the arabeyes team.
>
> The subject is supposed to be "tagrebatkom al ra2eda w ofokha al
> mostakbaleia". Can someone translate it into english ? ;-)
>
> It's supposed to take 2 hours.
>
> The idea is simple, They decide a subject and start getting questions from
> the site visitors and we are supposed to answer them. No need to go to
> their office as they can send the questions via msn or using the phone.
>
> I have no idea whether I'll accept such a thing or not. I'm just keeping
> you updated anout what happens. If you have a look at their terms of
> service and the "best viewed with IE 4.0+" thing you'll know why. I still
> have to think about it.
>
> Best regards,

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