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On Tuesday 04 November 2003 04:11, Jon Copeland wrote:
> So in good faith of sharing knowledge for the greater good what are your
> thoughts on the below text?

this is an increasingly common strategy. i've been aproached previously by MS 
employees regarding Linux and why i feel it's so great. there was a whole 
campaign in Vancouver around this theme earlier this year.

my opinion: don't give them anything, except perhaps that what makes Linux so 
great is that it's an Ope Source / Free Software product. all the things make 
it worth using waterfall from that single fact. trying to mimic the end 
results of that process is sort of like trying to cure a disease by treating 
the symptoms: it's not a great way of doing things. if MS wants to make their 
products truly great, they need to Free(dom) them.

i have no desire to see a better closed source Windows. or, to be fair, a 
better closed source MacOS either. freedom is where it's at and anything else 
will be weak in all the ways Free systems are strong.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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