-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yes, Aaron
I agree, do not give them anything. They can go do their own work. That is what they get paid for, right. My point is, Linux is competition for closed source (proprietary) OS's and software. Open source fulfills this because that is the way it works. Now it is up to the ones being shown up here to do a better job or start losing their customers. It's not up to us to spoon feed them and tell them how, I mean give me a break, I wonder if I smell a fish here anyway. Consider M$ hostile as previous track records have shown. If M$ is forced to do better and people who want to buy it get a better deal, that is great. But why should we have to help M$ to get their act together ? We don't and shouldn't. <rant_and_rave_MODE_OFF> sorry, just my opinion ;-) Mel Walters Key fingerprint = 314D E737 4589 95A3 ED7B E766 E971 D7E7 1E22 B9F3 On Tuesday 04 November 2003 05:52 pm, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > 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. > > -- > Aaron J. Seigo > GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/qJc/6XHX5x4iufMRAsEnAJ4lqxn4SUHOKr7CbsJK+IDzKwZ8rgCeMn1M pquFFu+bFQwaRu5yonmaNdo= =SMSa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
