And this would be where the zealotry comes in..... > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Crossland > Sent: 05 December 2006 22:21 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [backstage] Mozilla interview and Backstage > Schwag preview > > > On 05/12/06, Luke Dicken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I love the soap boxes people find to lecture the world > from. Drop me a > > line when capitalist society starts living up to these idealistic > > standards. > > I'm surprised you think that Free Software is not part of > capitalist society. > > Free Software is more pro-business than proprietary software is. > > If you buy a car, you don't expect that the bonnet is > padlocked shut, so you can't do basic small things yourself > like changing the oil, and that you can't take it to any > independent mechanic. > > Instead, you have freedom to fix what you can yourself, and > to help a thousand more mechanics make a million more pounds. > > All proprietary software developers are monopolists, because > only they can pop the bonnet or your car, as it were. Yes, a > free market prevents monopolists making _as much_ money as > one where they have the market. > > But without monopolists - proprietary software developers - > everyone else makes more money, overall. > > > Until then, I'm going to play by the same rules as other > people do - > > holding yourself to a higher standard just to take the moral high > > ground is the very reason the phrase "cutting your nose off > to spite > > your face" was coined. > > Were people cutting off their noses to spite their faces in > their struggle for freedom in the suffragette movement? > > Were people cutting off their noses to spite their faces in > their struggle for freedom in the anti-apartheid movement? > > Consider "If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? > And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, > when?" - http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hillel_the_Elder > > In that spirit, the Free Software movement is "willing to > undergo the tremendous inconvenience to create a free program > that's a replacement for a proprietary program. That's why we > have the GNU/Linux system, because a lot of people were > prepared to make practical sacrifices so we can have that freedom." > - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/15/lessig_stallman_drm/ > > :-) > > -- > Regards, > Dave > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To > unsubscribe, please visit > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
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