The American way should be about having equality and the reasonable freedom
to do what you want. Just because many people have used this freedom to
obtain massive amounts of money and power, does not mean it is the American
way. In fact it is almost anti American in a way because these people
usually interfere with the freedom of others by becoming very dominate and
controlling (can anyone say dictatorship). Now I'm not against making money,
in fact I love making money, but I also value freedom and equality for
myself and others. What ever a person/company does with their code, sell it,
give it away, throw it away or what ever, the bottom line is that it is
their choice to do as they please with it and that is the American way. I
respects Microsofts owners decision to sell it's products and make money,
but I don't respect many of its dictatorship like actions.
-david
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 6:51 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Is open source "unamerican"...
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>
> "They were pursuing their own happiness without regard to revenue
> generation or
> market share.
>
> What could be more American than that?"
>
> hmm, doesn't sound American to me - sounds more like socialism.
> Not that I agree or disagree with MS - but those lines are just wrong.
> American == Capitalism == Market share == $$$$
> IMHO anyway.
> -Dug
>
>
> "Pier P. Fumagalli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 02/17/2001 09:19:21 PM
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> cc:
> Subject: Is open source "unamerican"...
>
>
>
> I found this on another mailing list completely unrelated to Open Source,
> and I believe it makes more sense around here :)
>
> Microsoft has completely lost its mind...
>
> <http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2001/02/15/unamerican/index.html>
>
> Pier
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