-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 14 October 2006 02:39 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves cobbled together some glyphs to say: >>> Linux philosophy is >>> about using/writing/promoting ``Open Source'' owing to technical >>> benefits. >> >> you have some evidence to back this up? > > since no evidence is forthcoming, i presume that this is just some more > FSF FUD about linux
I guess you could have given me a bit more time before dismissing what I said. I was in college and read the mail just now. Quoting http://opensource.org/advocacy/faq.php `` Can you give me some open-source sound bites to use? The one-sentence version: Open source promotes software reliability and quality by supporting independent peer review and rapid evolution of source code. The one-paragraph version: Open source promotes software reliability and quality by supporting independent peer review and rapid evolution of source code. To be OSI certified, the software must be distributed under a license that guarantees the right to read, redistribute, modify, and use the software freely. '' So we can see that Open Source (read Linux[sic]) promotes software ``reliability'' & ``quality''. It says nothing about philosophy or ethics. Now quoting http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/shouldbefree.html `` Software Should be Free [O]wnership of a program--the power to restrict changing or copying it--is obstructive. Its negative effects are widespread and important. It follows that society shouldn't have owners for programs. Another way to understand this is that what society needs is free software, and proprietary software is a poor substitute. Encouraging the substitute is not a rational way to get what we need. Vaclav Havel has advised us to ``Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.'' A business making proprietary software stands a chance of success in its own narrow terms, but it is not what is good for society. '' And this is what we believe. All software should be Free not because it improves reliability and quality, but because it's good for the society. I hope you are happy with this. Now you _may_ claim that those docs are not the `official' word or you won't believe it unless <insert foo Linux [sic] guru> says so, but honestly I couldn't care less. Regards, BG - -- Baishampayan Ghose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ubuntu -- Linux for Human Beings http://www.ubuntu.com/ 1024D/86361B74 BB2C E244 15AD 05C5 523A 90E7 4249 3494 8636 1B74 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFMLMcQkk0lIY2G3QRArfZAKC9kmZSz92bfxI8lH2rJrpKBcM03gCgrSn4 ToL/JmVJcpMRnFJXpyy0Jfo= =Yti6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
