Re: Bill Gates doesn't want Americans working for him

[John Bailo]

Paul Bramscher wrote:

> Except for the profit motive part.  That's lacking in both the open 
> source (OSI) and free software (GNU) movements.  Also, nobody in the 
> open source movement can corner or monopolize something.

Yes, you should have attended the lecture given by David Brin and Corey 
Doctorow at EMP in Seattle.

Brin was the more brilliant speaker -- said that the struggle is between 
people who build the marketplace, and the monopolists who want an oligarchy.

GNU Linux is far from any of the things you accuse it of.  It's more 
akin to an absolutely free marketplace, where vendors can work and sell 
their wares ( in this case, labor ).

CSS is like a feudal castle, where high taxes are imposed on people and 
craftsmen, just for being on the land of the baron, and transacting 
business.

> If you take the firefox source code and do something awesome with it, 
> start a new project or major functionality, that's totally acceptable. 
> Even encouraged.  If you get the sourcecode of XP, you're probably going 
> to jail.

Yes, but if you want to create a website, that adheres to world 
standards, you're not under the mercy of Bill Gate$ allowing you to run 
your code.   Firefox is a Marketplace through which goods and services 
from businesses like Amazon can pass.   Internet Explorer is a toll 
road, and more than that, it's a toll road through which the toll owner 
can block and hinder commerce to force it to his own store.