Democrats Tap Open Source

[Curt Box]

On Wednesday 30 June 2004 10:24 am, you wrote:
> >however your reaction must be to the political inference and seems to
> >support SCO's suggestion that OSS and community based efforts are
>
> little >more than communist.
>
> Well, unfortunately, in some cases OSS is communism.  Especially when
> RMS is an outspoken liberal.
It's a known fact that all liberals are commies... just ask Rush he'll tell 
you all about the facts!
>
> That's what drives me crazy.
What drives me crazy are people who place their hands over their ears and 
think "La La La La La La" when someone expresses a view which differs from 
their own.
> There really is two types of Open Source, 
> or free software, what ever you want to call it.  There is the "Let's
> make the best product possible, using the best technique possible" which
> is pretty damn capitalistic when you get down to it. 
This is the model I would refer to as capitalistic.. The "Lets make the best 
product possible, using the best technique possible, that assures that we can 
further our corporate interests and increase our monopolistic stranglehold on 
the worlds information systems even if a bi-product of our approach causes a
censorship or derailment of superior technologies."

The model that attempts to provide the best product possible, using the best 
technique possible, AND allows anyone to download it at no charge fails my 
definition of capitalistic and is remarkably similar to your lets share 
everything model.

> Then there is the 
> "Let's share everything."  Ok, that's socialism.  Sure in the end you
> get the same output many times, 
I don't think there are many similarities between the output of my above 
stated models, which is why I have all chosen to use Linux. I doubt that you 
would claim to be a commie using a commie OS, so to stay on subject; I also 
doubt that the democrats are commies using a commie OS. I suspect they may 
have concluded that OSS grants them better security and sidesteps any black 
helicopter concerns of backdoors introduced at the request of the fine folks 
in Washington who generously concluded that MS is really just a good ol' 
company trying to make ends meet. But thats another story...

> but for so many of us that are principal 
> driven, it's an important distinction to make.
Just because your opinion differs from mine does not make my opinion any less 
principal driven... LOL
>
> Just my two cents.  Tried to keep this on topic as much as possible.
>
> Josh
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