Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> Proprietary software is from dark ages
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> | So proprietary software means that we are in the dark ages and open
> | source software means that we are in a mature democratic world. In
> | fact, Eric Raymond has advocated a similar argument in his essay
> | titled "The Cathedral and the Bazaar". Whether you want to live in
> | the dark ages or in a democratic society, is your choice.
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> http://www.krishworld.com/blog/open-source/proprietary-software-is-from-dark-ages/
Would that be the same Eric Raymond who made a verbose and highly
melodramatic exit from the Fedora project, citing as one of his reasons
that Fedora refused to embrace proprietary multimedia formats?
I can think of a few people I'd quote in the war against proprietary
software, but Raymond isn't one of them.
--
K.
http://slated.org
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| 'Also, no one calls it PCI-X even though that's the "official "
| shortening of the much more commonly used "PCI Express".'
| - Hardon Quirk, COLA's resident "genius".
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