Deane Foreman wrote:
dave wrote:
business is business. right or wrong, with or without a social
conscience.
Reminds me of the CEO of Coca Cola saying that his job description was
quite simple in the end - to make the shareholders of Coca Cola
wealthier and wealthier with every passing day; all the rest was just
fluff.
Students of telecommunications history will see the parallel. The same
profit-drive that had AT&T shackle BSD(5) - and open the "Unix Wars" -
is driving MS-OS$, only stronger. The imperative for Linux-global is to
start reweighting its anchor, poste haste, to stop the drift. Even OSI
have acknowledged license proliferation a la Mozilla to have been a
mistake, and started acting to simplify F/OSS title. Free Software has
always been the Linux-OSS community's heart. Now that the dotcom bubble
burst has finally been heard, we should get over the anti-Stallman('s
hippy generation) prejudice, realise that 1990's yuppy values are in no
way an advance, and start recohering our collective platform-purpose in
life.
I vote GNU.
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