Does open source have a political agenda?
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| Ideas like consensus, transparency, and connectivity, which have
| made the open source model possible, are now vital in growing our
| economy, and meeting challenges like global warming, disease,
| and aging.
|
| [...]
|
| Take our relations with the world. Open source shows that
| international consensus is possible, that building walls won't
| work, and that good ideas can come from anywhere. This implies
| that we need more friends, and fewer enemies.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=947
Maybe that's where a rebel steretypes comes from:
http://hacked.free-bsd.org/funstuff/pics/651.html
http://kevininscoe.com/pub/Nowee.opensource.png
The association of Linux with FSF/GNU/RMS may also be inadequate, but to some
it's a convenient argument that can be used as a deterrent.
Related:
The commie smear against open source
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| Because proprietary companies will always spend more of their
| money on marketing than open source outfits, it pops up regularly
| in the best of places, such as at Time Magazine recently. Or
| Microsoft sends CEO Steve Ballmer to London, so he can rant
| about how his lawyers are going to make all Linux users pay
| Microsoft for their stuff.
|
| It's nonsense.
|
| This is not "the gift economy," as Justin Fox calls it in Time.
| This is people taking advantage of the fact that the Internet
| has no distribution costs, which means marketing costs can
| also sink to zero. No ads in Time doesn't make you a communist.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=946
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| "Microsoft says open-source software is un-American. Has the
| company completely lost its mind?
|
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| By Andrew Leonard
|
| Feb. 15, 2001 | Once upon a time, Microsoft executives confined
| their criticism of Linux and free software to old-fashioned FUD
| -- fear, uncertainty and doubt. Linux wasn't good enough for
| enterprise-class systems, they declared. You couldn't get
| quality support, and it was too hard and clunky for average users.
|
| Fair enough. But now, judging by comments made Wednesday by
| Microsoft's operating systems chief Jim Allchin (and reported
| by Bloomberg News), it turns out that free and open-source
| software is something far worse than anyone could possibly have
| imagined. It is nothing less than a threat to the American
| way of life! "
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http://archive.salon.com/tech/log/2001/02/15/unamerican/index.html
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