On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Soh Kam Yung <[email protected]> wrote:
> After reading the starting of this article [
> http://www.digitalone.com.sg/guides/article/12140 ] about 'FREE'
> software [ http://www.digitalone.com.sg/guides/article/12162 ] I want
> to stop.
>
> What's the point? At the start, he says:
>
> <snip>
>
> It appears to me that he does not know the difference between 'free
> beer' and 'free speech' or even 'open speech'.
>
> It's no wonder 'important' people in dotSG don't get free/open
> software (in contrast to, say, the government in dotMY) when the local
> tech journalists don't get it right either.
>
I have often considered these guys "posers", rather than "journalists"
- pretending to "report"... rather than doing the actual hard work of
actually applying themselves, to truly understand before reporting.
And it's not even software that they get wrong too.
-jf
--
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."
--Richard Stallman
"It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not help."
-- Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager, NVIDIA Corporation
http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228
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