Hi Yakoub, On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:04:50 +0300 yakoub abaya <yakoub.ab...@gmail.com> wrote:
> given open source is about freedom of technology , i would like to discuss > our era's biggest usurpers of technology : the cellular companies . > don't you find it outrages how those companies control the market ? How do you feel they “usurp” technology and “control the market”? > i currently don't have a cell phone - although i can fully afford it - > simply because i am disgusted of the monopoly those companies have . Well, if there is more than one company in play, then it's no longer a monopoly. It could be an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligopoly , where the suppliers cooperate between them to the detriment of the consumers. > and i believe that as FSF once campaigned against the monopoly of microsoft > and broke it, so should a campaign be waged for > freedom of cellular technology . FSF's activity predates the explosion of the desktop computing market, which came before the time that Microsoft got a monopoly on desktop software. The underlying issues of the quest for free and open-source software are more substantial than just fighting a software monopoly. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ What does "Zionism" mean? - http://shlom.in/def-zionism Chuck Norris is a real programmer. He writes programs by implementing the most optimised machines for them using real atoms. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
