On Wednesday 25 October 2006 17:30, Dinesh Shah wrote: > Hi Falks, > > On 10/25/06, jtd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Very true. Unfortunately i do check periodically articles written > > by AHs and repos of shit. And since Dinesh Shah posted a link i > > thaought i might as well check. > > The idea behind the posting the link is to make aware how the > "popular" press/media perceives Free Software.
> Any amount of name calling or rhetoric is not going to help Free > Software. If i would actually condescend to talk to such AHs (note i maintain my stance and have justified it too) my take would have been different. Since i am preaching to the choir i said what actually needs to be said. > Whether we like them or not these popular media shapes > the opinion of the people, more important of them is decision > makers. Notice how a whole lot of wall street and hollywood types use gnu/linux not out of any love of freedom but merely due to convienence and costs. Is something wrong with that? YES. It is these same types who want drm. As long as they can shoot u but u cant it's fine. In the past it was called Overlordship. Which is why RMS is so important. Using GNU/linux merely for it's tech superiority would be acceptable. But using it with drm to subvert other's freedom is definetly reprehensible. The logic touted by the media companies is full of holes and stems from the fact that they have been fleecing artists and are sticking to old business methods, whereas some who had nothing to do with the media have minted billions leveraging new tech - Apple and a japanese company whose name i forget. > What credible answers we can provide? To personal insults? i am afraid none - well maybe a kick in the groin. > Instead of RMS refusing to > talk to this fellow just because he calls GNU/Linux as Linux, is > just a lost opportunity to make your *point*. I am sure there are better media persons out there to talk to. > We, as community, have to seriously learn to *manage* the media. Aha. How about some unmanaged truth. All the crap u watch on tv, read in the print and hear on the radio is managed. And it got to this state by managing. But i am getting seriously ot and political. The bottom line is that V3 is very clear about it's goal of preventing misuse of FOSS in restricting freedoms and the media managers dont like it one bit. And should artists catch on to the basic tenets and principles of FOSS, media companies will be museum pieces. Never mind the crap about starving artists and copyrighted works and all the other crap dished out in the media. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
