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[News] The Need to Comprise Short-term Convenience for Freedom

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Let's Move FOSS to Its Logical Conclusion

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| The most obvious trouble with these viewpoints is that they are 
| short-sighted, even in their own terms. The idea that focusing on quality and 
| ignoring licenses is the best policy is disproved by the well-known story of 
| how Linus Torvalds chose BitKeeper, and pieces of proprietary versioning 
| software for kernel development, only to have to scramble for a replacement 
| when the free version suddenly became unavailable. The same vulnerability is 
| present in software that is simply gratis. The fact that a change in license 
| hasn't happened yet with a particular piece of software is no guarantee that 
| it won't.        
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3773286/Lets+Move+FOSS+to+Its+Logical+Conclusion.htm


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Freedom Walk - To claim, ensure and preserve Freedom

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| Millions of people worked hard and even paid with their lives to earn us the
| freedom we enjoy today. Is our current generation aware of the value of this
| freedom? From the lack of social and political sensitivity and the lack of
| activism in our society it might seem that this is not so. It is as if we are
| devaluing freedom every day. With the commercialisation of almost every
| sphere of life, most people are not able to find any time to put in effort to
| fight this alarming trend. Most, but not everybody. At Zyxware, we have
| decided to focus our efforts to tackle this issue head on.
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http://freedomwalk.in/
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