On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 03:53:53PM -0600, Eric Jensen wrote: > Stuart Jansen wrote: >
> I can understand the "repeat victim" part. We have all experienced that > plenty. But the economy part is a bit of a stretch. America's economy > is one of, if not the, strongest economy in the world and I'm pretty > sure it wasn't because of OSS mindsets. I'm going to disagree with you on two points. The American economy is strong compared to, oh, say, Zimbabwe, but nowhere near as strong as it could be. I take it you've priced petroleum products lately. How about euros? Those prices are both symptomatic of a cheaper $, thanks to Mr. Bush's policies, which are neither compassionate nor conservative. That cheaper $ does not bode well for a strong American economy. To the extent that it is strong, it is so in part due to the Internet. And that in turn runs heavily on OSS. Cases in point, Apache, Linux, sendmail, emacs. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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