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When does marketing software become political?
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| I believe it should be an obvious idea that
| clean air is good. Telling the world they
| want to breathe less pollutantsis a lot like
| telling everyone that free and open source
| software is in their best interest. Even
| though it seems like common sense to the
| believers, it is inconveniently inconsistent
| with the way of life in economic powerhouses
| like the United States.
|
| Most computing environments contain an
| overwhelming quantity of Microsoft software.
| Even if the products we use every day are
| tainted, nobody wants to believe it. Instead
| users, even those who prefer open source,
| silently stick to status-quo. Itâs easier to
| shell out $100 here and there to ignore the
| issue.
|
| Open source software is an ideal which is
| competing against tangible products that
| come in shrink-wrapped boxes. All of the
| answers on how sharing code with your
| neighbor his commercially healthy are
| detailed in the 1985 GNU Manifesto. That was
| almost 25 years ago, why the world does the
| political agenda of software freedom seem
| radical? The answer is that proprietary
| software companies have been pushing their
| counter-propaganda.
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http://whatwillweuse.com/2009/12/16/when-does-marketing-software-become-political/
Related:
Shuttleworth grasps open source political message
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| In his interview today Shuttleworth also said Ubuntu will support GPLv3 and
| was careful not to criticize Linus Torvalds, who supports GPLv2, saying the
| differences in the contracts is more of a kernel issue than anything else.
|
| [...]
|
| But itâs Shuttleworthâs swipes at Microsoft and his rallying of anti-American
| sentiment which I believe will be the headlines, and should be.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1287
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