Verily I say unto thee, that Lusotec spake thusly:
> Any developer should have the freedom to use and develop for
> C#/Mono/CLI and I don't agree with purposely making it difficult to
> install Mono (e.g. removing it from the repositories) but developers
> should be made aware of the potential future pitfall.
I believe even /that/ is a fallacy.
It's not as though developers don't /already/ have a choice.
They do. They can /choose/ to develop proprietary and/or encumbered
software ... for proprietary platforms (Windows, Mac), or they can
/choose/ to develop Free Software ... for Free platforms (Linux, BSD).
If these developers are so enamoured by proprietary licensing and
patents, then why do they feel the need to poison Free Software with it?
Surely it would make more sense (to them) to just give themselves over
completely to the proprietary paradigm, and leave Free Software in peace.
As it is, they drag their licenses, patents, and all the baggage that
entails, into Free Software, quickly followed by an army of other
developers and enthusiasts tainted by the Microsoft paradigm of bloat,
insecurity, instability, and "IP" mentality, all scrambling to make
"Killa Appz®" that spread the disease of Microsoft's Intellectual
Monopoly, and utter technical incompetence (like somebody forgot to
lock the gates at the local zoo).
Why?
Is this what Free Software advocates really want for their systems?
To the casual observer, it might seem like sabotage (on an individual
level), or more generally ... a hostile invasion.
That's why I contend we should be shoring-up our defences against such
an invasion, by (amongst other things) completely obliterating all
traces of Microsoft's Poisonware from Free Software.
That's not inhibiting those developers' Freedom, since the "Freedom" to
subjugate others (with proprietary licenses and patents) is /not/ a
"right" of Freedom at all ... it's an abuse of power. /Preventing/ that
abuse of power is merely an act of self defence (much like the GPL not
only /provides/ Freedom, but also /protects/ it - unlike the anarchistic
apathy of the BSD, for example).
Those "developers" still have Windows, in all its encumbered glory, to
satisfy their mysterious "needs".
--
K.
http://slated.org
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| "The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which
| the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf
| denounces him for the same act, as the destroyer of liberty.
| Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of
| the word liberty; and precisely the same difference prevails today
| among human creatures." ~ Abraham Lincoln
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