On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 10:58 +0100, Ciarán O'Riordan wrote: > Possible connection, FWIW: > > Bruce Perens also opposes pro-fs government policies: > http://lwn.net/Articles/163077/ > "I still think that preference laws are the wrong way to go. [...] I keep > thinking that the end still doesn't justify the means."
This isn't a hugely uncommon point of view, though - I think you're possibly making a link too far. Personally, I'm pretty much against them: you can't argue coherently and simultaneously against the preference given to other platforms and for a preference given to free software*; the basic principle is the same and people will smell hypocrisy. Cheers Alex. *. People love to fall back on "oh, free software is different because it's ethical and stuff", but it's a poor argument. For some, the ethics of public spending is you do as little as possible and get best value possible: reducing it to an "ethical" argument fails because not everyone's ethics are the same. -- This message was scanned by Better Hosted and is believed to be clean. http://www.betterhosted.com _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
