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____/ Homer on Wednesday 27 Jan 2010 22:22 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>> http://identi.ca/notice/19447629
>>
>> "Updated ur1.ca/jtms : #Canonical is now encouraging #Ubuntu users to
>> use proprietary software from IBM. #Red_Hat history repeats itself."
>
> As much as I feel proprietary licensing is wrong, because it's based on
> the lie that knowledge can be legitimately claimed to be one's exclusive
> "property", equally I believe that people should have the personal
> freedom to choose proprietary software if they want to. IOW people
> should have the freedom to make their own mistakes, without some
> totalitarian regime "protecting" them from making their own choices.
>
> However I hope that, in the long term, the dubious benefits of these
> temporarily granted artificial privileges, offered as bribes to promote
> science and the useful arts, will be scrutinised and found to have been
> abused far beyond the original intent, then ultimately revoked based on
> several conclusions, including the law of diminishing returns, the
> unacceptable compromise to our liberties, the extremely aggressive and
> sometimes criminal extents to which the beneficiaries go in order to
> enforce these privileges, and the simple fact that it was monumentally
> imprudent to believe that negotiating with intellectual extortionists
> would ever result in anything but extortion.
>
> So while proprietary software continues to exists, I feel people should
> be allowed to use it, even if I personally disagree with that licensing
> model, and question the prudence of using it.
>
> But what Canonical is doing is not merely facilitating the use of
> proprietary software, by providing a platform upon which that software
> can work; they are actively encouraging it, promoting it, distributing
> it, and financially benefiting from it. Indeed they even create and use
> their own proprietary software, then refuse requests to make that
> software Free. Canonical has an attitude towards licensing which has
> long since past the point of mere pragmatism. They are now, in fact,
> utterly committed to the principles of proprietary licensing.
>
> Shuttleworth recently expressed his admiration of Apple, and his desire
> for Ubuntu to be more like Mac OS X. Well it seems he succeeded on both
> counts. Ubuntu is infested with proprietary software, and Canonical are
> now the "Apple" of the Open Sauce movement. Congratulations.
In Ubuntu's defence (it's usually better to give benefit of the doubt),
they may adopt the Raymond way of thinking and hope that by giving people
what they impulsively want they'll lure in businesses and then introduce to them freedom, like
a Trojan horse. In reality it rarely works. Some companies tried and failed
and it sets the expectations improperly.
Bruce Perens explains this brilliantly.
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~~ Best of wishes
Roy S. Schestowitz | Reversi for Linux/Win32: http://othellomaster.com
http://Schestowitz.com | GNU is Not UNIX | PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E
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