On 21 Oct 2005 06:33:44 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Some similarities: > >1. decentralized : there is no one Pope for either, > although there are certainly Ayatollah wannabes in OSS > like RMS. > >2. imperialistic : just as muslim armies once attacked country > after country, and today there is a "reverse crusade" & jihad > happening, OSS is entering almost every area of software use > and many OSS partisans are going to an extra effort to > impose free software on their organizations, families, etc. > >3. no dissent allowed : just as muslims feel compelled > to attack anyone who speaks blasphemy, such as Salman Rushdie > who merely points out that the koran is merely a historical > document (therefore he must be killed), so alas OSS > supporters become very angry when any dissenter speaks > their mind. > >4. destructive : OSS radicals want to get rid of even > the copyright, and the GPL is written to strip software writers > of their rights over their work (read it...); similarly > muslim radicals want to rid the world of non-muslim people > and impose taxes and prison time or worse on non-muslims. > >And surely there are more similarities. > >This isn't to say that free software is all wrong, >but it is better to know and think about the movement >and whether it is going in the right direction >than to let it become evil, like islam. The copyright >for instance is so basic, to remove it would be so radical >as to be insane.
My biggest bitch with open source software is simply that most of it just isn't very good. But I guarantee you're going to get a lot of flames from the OS crowd. <G> _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
