On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 21:54:30 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Baker ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 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 merely points out that the koran is merely a historical document 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> > >My biggest bitch with proprietary software is simply that most of it just >isn't very good AND you have to pay for it... There's that too..... _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
