I've agreed with you, Dustin. Free software provides real or "powerful" control over computers you own. I've parsed the conversation for you so that you can follow it again.
Non free software can only provide an illusion of control to the user and hardware owner. If LSU used free software for the same kind of administrative control, they would have it for real. As it is, LSU shares that control with the software's real owners who have granted themselves the right to search, modify or destroy files and to revoke use of that software at any time. What a shame. Some people don't mind that kind of control. Well, good luck to them! The top heavy network control demanded will be a technical dissaster if they ever try to apply it directly because it will override the opinion, experience and hard work of all but a few of LSU's computer administration. I'm sure you would complain, Dustin, if someone did the same to you. Your chance might come sooner than you think. Check out these brain dead ideas from everyone's friend, Richard Clarke: http://tinyurl.com/39n7my On Wednesday 03 October 2007 8:48 am, Dustin Puryear wrote: > I'll be honest: I'm completely lost in this conversation. I don't know > what you're saying anymore. > > willhill wrote: > > Only free software can provide control over any computer. > > > > On Tuesday 02 October 2007 12:50 pm, Dustin Puryear wrote: > >> the most powerful packages to implement that control are > >> themselves open source.
