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[News] Resemblances Between Proprietary Software and Totality

  • Subject: [News] Resemblances Between Proprietary Software and Totality
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 02:28:18 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Sirius Cybernetics Corporation
  • User-agent: KNode/0.9.0
  • Xref: news.mcc.ac.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:1130348
Freedom and open source is not for all

,----[ Quote ]
| The open source means for me
|
|     * possibility to choose the best option for me. No restrictions
| given by "dictator". But it also means responsibility for the choice
| that was taken.
| 
| [...]
| 
| On the other hand, closed source represents
| 
|     * no choice. Once I live in proprietary software world, I do not
| have much choices. The companies creates lock-in strategies and it
| is painful to change the vendor.
|     * I do not have any impact on the functionality of the closed
| software. OK, one can write a mail to the company asking for a
| feature, but the result is the same like changing totalitarianism
| via "elections".
|
| [...]
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http://blog.zmok.net/articles/2006/07/19/freedom-and-open-source-is-not-for-all

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