New topic = new thread :) Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED], from the post of Tue, 11 Feb: > > > list, but what about the bigger goal of helping a linux win? > > > > I see that as a moot issue. Linux has already won. what I > > Ever heard of "be paranoid"?
nope. Paranoia, per the DSM-IV, is a serious personality problem and people suffering from it are not very happy people, with troubles relating to reality. Why would I want to be that? I AM afraid to lose my Freedom, which is a different, thought somewhat parallel, issue. Helping people at Oracle doesn't hurt my freedom, so I don't mind doing it. However I prefer promoting Free over proprietary software when given the choice (not to be confused with "commercial") > already "linux territory" (what's linux territory? Movie studios?). why would I need the headache of a territory? :) > (e.g. NZ Post just decided to move from OS/2 to Windows after > considering Linux for a few months - I wonder if the Linux vendors > there could do more to win this deal). that's their choice, what to run internally. as long as they support open standards and let me use their online and offline electronic resources via open standards and Free tools, why should I mind? the newspaper is a company and they are allowed to manage their data as they wish. Ynet may use microsoft internally till the cows come home. the only thing I'm annoyed with is their web presence, which won't work on non-MSIE (i.e. their readers' forums) > As for this being "off topic" - isn't a question about commercial > software on top of Linux of interest for this group or its > participants? Go figure if one day you might have a project or a job > at that customer because linux won there. What would you brag about in > "Linux in Government" conferences if not about how many businesses > succeed on Linux? As I said, if GNU/Linux wins because someone embraced a non-free product or a non-free standard, I don't see it as a win, I see it as a parasite. though unlike parasites of the biological world, they don't take any of my resources, so I don't care about them. on the other hand they don't contribute back either, and they don't promote my freedom. (well, maybe not in this particular case. I get payed by a company that makes money from installing Oracle on Gnu/Linux machines :-) > Everything is connected.... but not inherently true and correct. Our goals may not be the same afterall, and I don't see all the means justified because we aim at different ends. -- Big fish in a small pond Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13. Documenting or attempting to crack this encryption is illegal.
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