____/ Rex Ballard on Wednesday 27 June 2007 21:33 : \____
> On Jun 27, 4:13 pm, Doug Mentohl <doug_ment...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> "Free Software as Part of the Anarchist Toolkit"
>
> To a totalitarian, or his cronies, a democrat is an anarchist.
>
> To a monopolist, a competitor who promotes free market competiton is a
> communist.
>
> Microsoft is a Monopoly.
>
> GNU and OSS have attempted to create a foundation for fair free market
> competition.
> Even the GNU Manifesto encourages the sale of support and services,
> including
> consolidation, testing, verification, distribution, sales, and support
> of GNU software.
>
> There are over 100 Linux distributions available, but there are only
> 5-6 market leaders,
> and they lead because they provide better consolidation, testing,
> verification, sales, distribution,
> and support, than the others.
>
> But Steve Ballmer has called us "Communists", "Terrorist", and
> "Anarchists".
> He'd call us "The spawn of hell" if he thought he could get away with
> it.
>
> Even the statements above have damaged his credibility - especially
> among corporate customers, who have been using UNIX, Linux, and OSS
> for years. I introduced OSS, TCP/IP, and Unix as an enterprise
> integration too to Federal Express - in 1987.
Referring back to the OP, the GPL is scientific. Anything other evolves to
become pro-exploitation.
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