Re: [free-software-melb] Incentives for corporations to protect consumer freedom

2012-06-13 Thread Dennis K
On 06/09/2012 11:12 PM, Adrian Colomitchi wrote: On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Dennis Kdenn...@netspace.net.au wrote: On 06/08/2012 11:35 PM, Patrick Elliott-Brennan wrote: Dennis K wrote: It's not so much that its a different country, but that its a new economy which hasn't gotten to

Re: [free-software-melb] Eric S. Raymond on evaluating the harm from closed source

2012-06-13 Thread Dennis K
On 06/09/2012 07:42 PM, Matt Giuca wrote: Closed source only serves one purpose, profit. That's fine, but if I'm not personally profiting, then why would I argue for that side? You could say that because of profit, people are able to develop software which they might not develop by any other

Re: [free-software-melb] Incentives for corporations to protect consumer freedom (was: Draft Fedora plan to cope with Secure Boot on x86 hardware)

2012-06-13 Thread Patrick Sunter
Just responding to one point below... snip On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Ben Finney ben+freesoftw...@benfinney.id.au wrote: It certainly seems to me that the American corporate model is hell bent on self destruction. Wait till China or India or another nation which doesn't so much care