The Problem With St. Ignucius
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| No single product has done more to fuel the Cheap Revolution than Linux.
| This free operating system runs in Wall Street banks and Hollywood special
| effects shops, on supercomputers and smart phones, TiVo boxes and network
| routers. Talk about momentum. Red Hat is on track to do $400 million in
| sales this year. Novell has just produced a Linux desktop so sleek that I
| didn't want to return the demo machine they loaned me, and I just bought a
| copy for my office PC...
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| Basically, two camps within the Linux community are facing off: the
| pragmatists, like Torvalds and the corporations, versus the extremists, led
| by Stallman.
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| Perens says if Torvalds doesn't adopt GPLv3, extremists will create a new
| operating system using a different kernel.
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http://www.forbes.com/2006/08/31/stallman-linux-opensource_cz_dl_0831stallman.html?boxes=custom
Yesterday I read about DRM in documents. That whole sustitution of
permissions with encryption is distrubing. Data is becoming binary blobs.
And that's /really/ bad.
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