On 07/03/2010 11:45 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > nothing is black and white - take yahoo!, they contribute their satellite > images freely to openstreetmap, release a lot of the code they write into > open > source and happily patent a lot of software. There is an old english proverb > 'he who lives in a glass house should undress in the dark'. If we apply the > principle of only black and white, very few if anyone on this list qualifies > to > be here. (certainly I do not). But let us be reasonable - there is a huge > amount of 'white' in IBM which is thus much higher on the side of the good > guys than microsoft. Of course Redhat is almost pure white on the scale. > > let people who use fully free software on their mobiles, who do not touch > google apps, who only use non-patented hardware flame IBM. Let the rest of us > keep our peace.
Although I could argue about some specific points here, my point was not about purity but simply that we need to continue to keep a critical eye on who we consider friends of free software. Rahul _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
