On Wednesday 26 Nov 2008, Mani A wrote: > [snip] > You are looking at only one of the ways used by proprietary software > companies. They expect to profit in various other ways. Most > proprietary closed source software companies have big stakes in the > organized crime industry too. The latter is apparently as advanced > (if not more) as any other industry.
Er, would you have some data to back up that statement? If you mean organised crime is technically advanced, sure, I have no quarrel with that. But a sweeping statement that ties organised crime and proprietary software development companies is a bit too much to swallow. Or have I wandered into the Let's Gratuitously Bash Corporates Mailing List by mistake? BTW, most of the bot-control IRC servers controlled by organised crime on the 'net run on cracked Linux boxes. Some of them may even be running on Gnusense... makes you stop and think about the connection between FOSS and crime, huh? ;) Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ Fsf-friends mailing list [email protected] http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends
