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Re: Free software movement similar to Islam?
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John Baker |
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Re: Free software movement similar to Islam? |
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Fri, 21 Oct 2005 21:04:36 GMT |
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>
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