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Re: Free software movement similar to Islam?


From: Mark K. Bilbo
Subject: Re: Free software movement similar to Islam?
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 21:54:30 -0500

In <6qlil1h2fddgj4p87mel1h8o8utrl44ojf@4ax.com>, John Baker
<nunya@biziniz.net> wrote:

> On 21 Oct 2005 06:33:44 -0700, harddrivecleaner@yahoo.com wrote:
> 
>>Some similarities:
>>
>>1. decentralized : there is no one Pope for either,
>>  although there are certainly Ayatollah wannabes in OSS like RMS.
>>
>>2. imperialistic : just as muslim armies once attacked country
>>  after country, and today there is a "reverse crusade" & jihad
>>  happening, OSS is entering almost every area of software use and many
>>  OSS partisans are going to an extra effort to impose free software on
>>  their organizations, families, etc.
>>
>>3. no dissent allowed : just as muslims feel compelled
>>  to attack anyone who speaks blasphemy, such as Salman Rushdie who
>>  merely points out that the koran is merely a historical document
>>  (therefore he must be killed), so alas OSS supporters become very angry
>>  when any dissenter speaks their mind.
>>
>>4. destructive : OSS radicals want to get rid of even
>>  the copyright, and the GPL is written to strip software writers of
>>  their rights over their work (read it...); similarly muslim radicals
>>  want to rid the world of non-muslim people and impose taxes and prison
>>  time or worse on non-muslims.
>>
>>And surely there are more similarities.
>>
>>This isn't to say that free software is all wrong, but it is better to
>>know and think about the movement and whether it is going in the right
>>direction than to let it become evil, like islam. The copyright for
>>instance is so basic, to remove it would be so radical as to be insane.
> 
> My biggest bitch with open source software is simply that most of it just
> isn't very good.
> 
> But I guarantee you're going to get a lot of flames from the OS crowd. <G>

My biggest bitch with proprietary software is simply that most of it just
isn't very good AND you have to pay for it...

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