Home Messages Index
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index

Re: [News] GPL Sustains Freedom, Unlike BSD

____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 19 December 2007 08:00 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 18 December 2007 15:48 : \____
>> 
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> GPL vs BSD, a matter of sustainability
>>>> 
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>| So what can we conclude from all this? Both license models make software
>>>>| free, but only GPL software is sustainably free. The BSD gives greater
>>>>| freedom, the GPL gives more freedom. Choose which one you value more.
>>>> `----
>>>> 
>>>>
>>
http://www.matusiak.eu/numerodix/blog/index.php/2007/12/15/gpl-vs-bsd-a-matter-of-sustainability/
>>> 
>>> This is a debate which we've had here over and over.  The microsoft
>>> shilcosystem likes to call BSD more "free" because it allows people to
>>> make it unfree.
>>> 
>>> To me, that appears to be a significant logical fallacy.
>> 
>> Microsoft loves BSD. It only knows the notion of "take", not "give".
> 
> The ultimate exploiter.
> 
>> 
>> Additionally, when Microsoft starts listening to its end users (not
>> customers, i.e. OEMs, MPAA, NSA...), then -- and /only/ then -- will it have
>> some /ethics/ that are needed make it /give/.
>> 
>> Scott M. Fulton, III:
>> 
>> "Microsoft's distorted perception of the computing industry, and of the
>> world as a whole, is important because of a fact which Judge Jackson
>> came to realize but, all too soon, commented on: Any conduct remedy
>> which relies solely upon Microsoft's own ability to scrutinize,
>> admonish, and improve itself through its own means, will be treated by
>> Microsoft's executives with disrespect and contempt. It's like a
>> parent ordering his wayward son to shape up. The executives of
>> Microsoft are as unwilling to consider such an order as an adolescent
>> boy, bottled up in his room, is willing to remove his headphones and
>> listen to his dad for five seconds. They are likely to ignore such an
>> order altogether. I say this with the utmost respect: They don't give
>> a damn what you think."
>> 
>> 
> 
> To date, Microsoft have had the support of the US government against
> their own legal system, even to the point of having judges removed from
> cases.  Total corruption.  Even some African "republics" would be
> embarrassed at some of this behaviour.

That's how they receive their immunity, e.g. in antitrust cases.

At the moment, you can see this routine done in ISO (the watchers leave the
house in disgrace). In some countries, Microsoft knocked CIOs out of their
jobs, only to be replaced by Microsoft lobbyists.

It's worth saying again that Redmond is filled with criminals in suits. They
are too vain to admit this. They think they are Robin Hoods.

-- 
                ~~ Best of wishes

Roy S. Schestowitz      | "Computers are useless. They only solve problems"
http://Schestowitz.com  | Free as in Free Beer |  PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E
Cpu(s): 25.8%us,  4.5%sy,  1.0%ni, 65.0%id,  3.3%wa,  0.3%hi,  0.1%si,  0.0%st
      http://iuron.com - semantic engine to gather information

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index