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| DATE | 2006-05-24 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Balug-talk] [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Its a sorry day for The Linux Journal
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On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 10:23:50AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Ruben Safir (ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com):
>
> > Be that what it may, Larry Augustine "Free Shit" speach is certainly
> > not a Free Software sentiment. Whether it is an "Open Source"
> > sentiment or not I will leave to those familiar with such groups of
> > people since I don't know many of them and those I've met, like Bruce
> > Perens, have made equally similar sentiments very clear.
>
> Hi, Ruben. I'm not quite sure what this outburst had to do with the
> preceding conversation?
>
The reference was to the statements, as I understood them, that no Open Source
advocates publically said that their software freedom was any less important to
them than the Free Software Advocates.
No only did Augustine clearly say this, in "Freedom OS - the movie" amoung other places,
but clearly this has been repeated by others, including Bruce Perens when we were arguing
about the egov-os meeting in Washington DC, and this latest one from the "Linux Journal" editor.
And then there was Linus's lovely DRM is not really theft statement just prior to the DMCA
meetings. Those were great fodder for Time-Warner that the DMCA hearings. The propensity for
Free Software leaning groups to self-destruct has been very disheartening over the years.
And while all these good folks may not be card carrying members of the OSI, they are clearly
precieved by the general public as being "Open Source" advocates.
I'm not certain if the very intelligent people who promote the lines of reasoning such as
we witnessed by "The Linux Journal" editors editorial from February, the one I sent at the
start of this thread, fully comprehend just how much damage they are doing to their own self
interests for the comfort of a short term solution.
The fundemental error here is that Free Software is ***not*** about technology. It is ***all**
about politics and impact of technology on society (and business). Furthermore, for a proprietory
peice of software, say MAC-OS, its not about the technology either. It is ***all*** about business
and their business model is to enslave the user. They are never interested in enabling the user
with technology. If they were, their systems would work like GNU/Linux instead of the twisted
junk that they are.
Ruben
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