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

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.

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.

-- 
	A housewife, an accountant and a lawyer were asked to add 2 and 2.
	The housewife replied, "Four!".
	The accountant said, "It's either 3 or 4.  Let me run those figures
through my spread sheet one more time."
	The lawyer pulled the drapes, dimmed the lights and asked in a
hushed voice, "How much do you want it to be?"

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