[Discuss] Thumbs Up To Ben

[markw at mohawksoft.com (markw at mohawksoft.com)]

Well, I don't think the notion of "open source" and "free software" (free
being as in freedom and not beer) can exist without "ideology" and the
palpable impact of corporations on the ability to do great things and
their harm to greater society.

I am a critic of Steve Jobs as well as Bill Gates. Not Because of their
products, per se' but the impact they have had on the ideals of "free
software" and freedom in general.

Today the biggest threat to long term freedom, and history as a whole, is
the cultural and legal acceptance of DRM. If you think about this and its
eventual elimination of the free flow of information, you should be
scared. VERY SCARED.

Steve Jobs is one of the biggest violators of the freedom to actually
control what you own.

I argue that without criticism of corporations and their damage to society
as well as the ideology of free software, what's the point of BLU?

Why would Linux even exist without them?


> Thanks Ben.  I usually use this list to read and I rarely comment but
> figured I should give a thumbs up to Ben's comment.  Too much time on many
> of these Linux mailing lists is complaining about competitors and not
> enough
> on the actual mailing list subject.  I am not saying this is true about
> everyone but I ask what kind of productivity/innovation would we have if a
> large group of these FUD spreaders would refocus their time on something
> other than complaining about competitor products/idealogy?
>
> Adam
>
>>As an aside, there is an incredible amount of FUD spread on this list.
>>Instead of concentrating on the cool innovations that are happening in
>> the
>>open source community, half of the threads seem to be about how we are
>> all
>>getting screwed by Apple/Microsoft/Google/etc.
>
>>-ben
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