> You just described 90% of open source software. Is that not end-user
> software also?
No. The e.g. version packaged (and, often, patched) by Red Hat for which
people pay $39.95 is end user software.
>>People killed in WTC tragedy (approx.): 5,000
>>People who die every day of starvation: 24,000
>>Each of those deaths is more preventable than one caused by a terrorist.
>>So when does the Western World declare war on hunger, disease and poverty?
>
> When we are directly responsible for that hunger, disease and poverty.
Sorry? You are saying the Western World is directly responsible for
terrorism? And that's an interesting word, "directly". If the West has a
grain mountain, great cultivating technology and knowhow, and an
excellent quality of life for the overwhelming majority of its citizens,
is it directly responsible for deaths that result from not sharing that?
> These two things are not even remotly the same. But I guess the US
> should be doing somthing about it just because a large number of people
> die from it, is that what you're saying?
I'm saying that it's somewhat hypocritical, perhaps, for the West to
conveniently ignore these preventable deaths happening, but when some
unpreventable ones happen (a far smaller number - and probably smaller
than the number of innocent people killed in drink-driving accidents in
a month as well) then it's a $20 billion dollar issue from Congress.
> Maybe somthing more sensable
> for a .sig would be a good idea.
"I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right
to say it." One of your countrymen, I believe - if your email address is
anything to go by.
Gerv
