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Re: Moglen Debunks the 'Right' to 'Own' Knowledge

On Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:42:29 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

> After takin' a swig o' grog, Rex Ballard belched out
>   this bit o' wisdom:
> 
>> On Dec 31 2008, 5:57 pm, "DFS" <nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> > The Free Software Movement and the Struggle for Freedom of Thought
>>
>>> blah blah blah
>>
>>> Why are you linking to Moglen, Spamowitz?
>>
>>> You're a promoter and developer of proprietary systems who insists on
>>> being paid for his work, and whose commitment to open source and free
>>> software begins and ends at your wallet.
>>
>>> Same for [H]ypocrite.  Ballard.  Linonut.  JED.  Rasker.  7.  Hilliard.
>>> Kohlmann.  chrisv.  Dumb Willie Poaster.  Marti.  HPT.  et al.
> 
> Poor DFS.  Still pounding that poor excuse for an argument.  And it is
> partly a lie anyway.

AFAIC it's a lie. I do NOT promote or develop anything to do with
proprietary systems. 
I wouldn't touch windoze with a 20ft barge pole.

So DumbForSure lies yet again.

> It's already been answered, but he'll keep trotting in out the way he
> keeps banging on his screenshot of a synaptic misconfiguration.
> 
>> I work for GBS, I'm a consultant.  Much of Websphere is based on Open
>> Source technology, however, the proprietary extensions and plug-ins
>> provide the wizards to generate code that would take my teams several
>> staff-weeks at around $100/hour to write by hand.
> 
> Open-source depends on well-fed programmers.
> 
> DFS should be blessing us for promoting open-source, since we do it with
> our voices, our feet, /and/ our wallets.

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of Micro$oft here!
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