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From: | Thomas Lord |
Subject: | [Gnu-arch-users] the way forward |
Date: | Mon, 05 Sep 2005 18:41:00 -0700 |
The FOSS (free and open source software) industry leaders have recreated and refined the freedom-robbing nature of the proprietary software industry. In the process, distribution vendors and proprietary ISVs win while customers and contributing engineers lose.
This paper explains the meaning of those claims and argues that they are true.
This paper concludes with recommendations about how to repair the situation.
For better or worse, a paper which criticizes the worst practices of the leaders of our industry also doubles as a recipe-book, condensing and providing a guide to repeating and enhancing the worst offenses. Readers in positions of relative power will have to decide for themselves how to take the information here: as corrective or as guide for further exploitation -- that's a personal, moral decision. This aims to be a dangerous paper.
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