On 12/13/10 4:16 PM, Boh Yap wrote:
agreed Red1,
I meant the 2 to be taken in the same context...
expensive + proprietary != Open Src (OSDC?) philosophy
May i quote from FSF's founder, Dr Richard Stallman, (since this will
be googleable by his global following, i will throw in some
non-expletive phrase for their filters to catch - ***SPAM***)"
RMS pointed out that the word Free is as in Freedom and not Free lunch
and even gleefully invited anyone to put up a USD1b price for using
GNU-Linux as an example. Thus what RMS is trying to make clear is that
been expensive is A-O-K.
During my own personal (botched) interview with him the last Foss.my
conference in Kuala Lumpur last year, when i was ranting to him about
OpenBravo, another fork of Compiere been a pliagiarist, RMS told me back
that i got confused with his reference to reverse-engineering, which
does not care about copying design, or usurping IP and is allowed as
long as you allowed the freedom over your codes for others to go on copying.
What Freedom over codes has brought to the world is what RMS is pointing
to as the true innovation that can happen elsewhere and anywhere to your
code. IMHO, Whoever owns it in the end does not really matter (well
(IMHO) RMS ought to be sore cos Linux owns the mind-share not GNU).
Now that IBM owns a big brand and is milking the brand to make money is
their business. There is a choice for people either to pay for it or go
elsewhere. IBM has done its share of 'Ook, ook, ook oo, Staying Alive,
staying alive..'. Remember what Azrul said about defending his
ex-employer, 'The Sun that never shines', so i will appreciate what IBM
in its own way did for FOSS such as Linux, Eclipse and many other open
or blocking moves against other real proprietary traps.
I am not very interested in joining any communistic notion of FOSS, that
it will cut down TCO (total cost of ownership) because it really doesn't
if you take into account the pain and ass-kicking that goes with it.
Usually your ass gets kicked harder back for pushing this RMS is here to
save the world shit, that the others don't even understand. Cost of
understanding is a bigger cost after all. People don't get kicked for
bungling SAP. They even get a promotion.
But beyond been a bunch of hobbyists and kampung totting penguins, the
only way for FOSS to be taken seriously is when the govt really takes it
seriously and throw out all those bloat. But as word has it, the govt
just signed some big big deals (read discounts) from big brother. I
know, cos when i was visiting some Kolej Gomen, i was told to tone down
the FOSS part cos they don't want to hurt the feelings of Billy after he
gave the MOHE a special rate. Now that is cheap kow-towing if you ask me.
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