On Monday 19 July 2010 07:20 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Actually, the rest of your mail seems to acknowledge and endorse that FOSS has a inherent political position.
Oops, you're right - guess I meant to say I can't make a statement about what exactly Miguel's motivations are, as we can only speculate about them - but I am willing to consider it folly rather than malice, as he and Nat seemed to be genuinely excited about what they're building. Perhaps they didn't have enough faith that the open source movement is capable of innovating and driving standards against something as powerful as Microsoft. That's probably the only explanation I can give for it. Again, it's just speculation.
As for the rest of the mail, I've always considered FOSS more of a personal opinion/values issue rather than overtly political, but when we're advocating it, I guess it becomes political indeed :)
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