Hey people, I don't think we should be making fun of Microsoft's products and/or Microsoft's employees that way. Not only is it just mean but it actually distracts from the core issue at hand: that Microsoft sells proprietary software and that proprietary software is morally unacceptable and that really is the problem. After all, if the people at Microsoft suddenly decided to embrace Free Software tomorrow and make all their software Free Software, then our problems with Microsoft would cease.
We making fun of Microsoft and Ballmer is quite similar to proprietary software advocates who discount Free Software and the GNU project by making fun of Richard Stallman (who is a pretty easy target and most of us have seen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I25UeVXrEHQ). If we think making fun of Richard Stallman to discount Free Software is unfair, then us making fun of Ballmer to discount Microsoft is unfair too. Let's focus on the core issues and not let these other things distract us. Just my two cents. Best, Ali >> Dressing up the fact that they're behind the times: >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkM6RJf15cg > > That was clumsy and painful. > > This might clear your head: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE > > _______________________________________________ > gnu-misc-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss > _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
