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| DATE | 2003-09-25 |
| FROM | Ruben I Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] Much Insite as an aside to the SCO case
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=79944&threshold=5&commentsort=0&tid=88&mode=thread&cid=7056574
I think computer science 101 needs to be taught in business school.
Maybe a refresher course in ethics would be good too.
The world can't afford to let boneheads make decisions that affect all
of us. Do we want tech idiots with their finger on the button, so to
speak? Software runs the world now. The economy, the world's security,
business, the military, education, governments, even the entertainment
world, which represents the US' largest export (at least that's what
they told us when they passed the DMCA), all depend to one degree or
another on software, and GNU/Linux software is playing a significant
role in all these fields. I think you could make a reasonable argument
that GNU/Linux is too valuable a resource to allow a group of greedy,
small-minded idiots to disrupt its progress. Not that I'm calling anyone
in particular an idiot, mind you. The business model SCO proposes is to
kill off the golden goose, GNU/Linux, for short-term financial benefit
to themselves. A world that would let that happen would be foolish
indeed.
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