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Re: [News] US Government Pressured Some More to Adopt Free Software


Micoshaft Appil asstroturfing fraudster pounding the sock Snit
wrote on behalf of Half Wits from Micoshaft Appil Department of Marketing:



> 7 stated in post ECJnl.37885$Sp5.839@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 2/20/09
> 7:25 PM:
> 
> ...
>>>> Banning closed source software will just keep on accelerating
>>>> that trend and create more jobs and opportunities than
>>>> failed politics and economics of closed source.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> Use what works best: open or closed source.  Keep your philosophy out of
>>> the government.
>> 
>> 
>> The politics of closed source infects the world with DRM
>> and software patents. And closed source just doesn't work.
> 
> Does not work?  I use both open and closes source software... and *both*
> work for me.  I would not want to place some artificial and detrimental
> limit on my choice... why do so for the government?
> 
> Heck, I thought Linux advocates *liked* choice... and here you are
> advocating for reducing it.  Why?
> 
>> Open source companies are expanding in a recession.
>> So it is right for companies making money with open
>> source to ask for removal of barriers to their trade.
> 
> By taking choice away?  No thanks!

IDIOT!

Software patents and DRM reduce choice!



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