On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 10:38:44 -0400 (EDT)
Russell McOrmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| This is not going to be as easy as you are suspecting it to be.
| Some of us have founded our businesses on publicly "picking
| sides" where it relates to licenses and other business models.
|
|
| A better way explain it is to say I have chosen a core competency
| and a business model that deliberately excludes the products (and
| licenses) of"software manufacturing".
As much as I agree with and admire many of your principled
positions, I distinguish between the personal/private and the
collective/public. I think it unreasonable to expect large numbers
of business people to follow a similar approach. Most people just
aren't that ideological. CLUE is a public organization and seeks to
represent the many, not the one or the few.
Ask yourself this, what exactly did the unix community learn from
the Unix Wars?
But that's about all I have to say on the issue. The notion of
credibility through professional ethics is my contribution to the
discussion about a meta organization called CLUE. I'm not here to
evaulate the business practices or personal beliefs of anyone. The
difference is one of perspective.
That's it from me. Goodnight all.
bill
<de-lurk:off>
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
