On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 05:13:08PM -0700, Bryan Murdock wrote: > On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 16:49, Stuart Jansen wrote: > > No one ever said that FSF advocates are opposed to being payed for > their work. They merely insist on doing it in ethical ways. > > Hmm, so is veiling the touting of the company you work for in shrouds of > Free Software-is-good rhetoric ethical? I mean, IBM seems to be telling > us Linux is cool, but it's main goal is to sell it's hardware. It > didn't get that fancy certification for Linux running on just any old > hardware. Personally I don't think IBM adds should be used by the UUG > to advertise Free Software.
I was about to post a rebuttal, but then I remembered that HP is a
competitor to IBM. I'm obviously being trolled. I won't let that
happen. No-siree.
:-)
Mike
(P.S. - About that whole certification/IBM hardware thing - HELLO?!?!
We had to choose *some* hardware platform; that is part of the
security target! Why in the world would we choose something other
than our own hardware??? And our code used for the certification is
under the GPL and has been released back to the community. Just one
minor detail I thought should not go overlooked :-) Okay, there. I
got that off my chest. I will leave the rest alone.
P.P.S. - I speak for myself and not for my employer.
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