On 2008-09-07, Roy Lanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> But if people want to use ion, great. If not, who cares? > > Disagree. Mostly because of *political* reasons ...
For political reasons, I'm dissociating myself from the bulk of the *self-destructive* *institutionalised* FOSS movement. It has become *blind* only following the written rules of their *sacred texts*, and no longer stands for the choice that might have once been found in a between-the-lines sense as one of the core values. The bulk of the movement has become mainstream, and adopted mainstream values, and keeps destroying the software base that even marginal programs depend on. In related not-so-news, I quit (or didn't bother to pay the membership anyway) from EFFI (Electronic Frontier Finland). One of the reasons is that they're also *blind* and too close to the FOSS mainstream. They keep working against me, using my money against me, by fighting against Microsoft's dominance by promoting the same shit in a different package: OpenOffice and ODF [1]. (Other reasons include secrecy, e.g. secret mailing lists for the board's buddies, closed from regular members; Helsinki-centricism; etc.) (Single-issue movements tend to be *blind* like that. They only see a few of their stated values, but not how the same repression repeats in other contexts.) [1]: http://iki.fi/tuomov/b/archives/2007/09/01/T09_27_29/ -- Tuomo
