hi supreet
thanks for your response.
On Sunday 09 March 2003 10:03 am, you wrote:
> Using open source/ Free Software is a explicit choice. Taxing buying of
> software is not going to help anybody.
but using bundled software is not an explicit choice. it is zabardasti. how
do you counter that?
>Gradual process of exceptence
> seems more beautiful then hurrying up the process.
heck! its nearly ten years since the birth of linux, and more than 15 years
since the birth of gnu. i am talking calender years. in the computer
industry, each calender year equals 7 computer years. that's a lot of wasted
time. gradual is not working.
>People should use
> linux or gnu/linux or whatever because of +ves of the system rather then
> -ves of certain other os and platform.
spoken like a true techie, but shows oblivion to how the industry really
operates. we *think* the IT industry is about pure, unadulterated technology.
it is not. it is about humans: how they create, manipulate, abuse, misuse,
about their greed, their dreams, their fallacies, their aspirations...
it is about forces bigger than humans: market forces, cultural forces,
sociological forces, economic forces, political forces.
looking at technology from this bigger, more holistic approach, suddenly
throws things into a stunning new perspective.
:-)
LL
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