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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? |
Date: |
Sat, 22 Oct 2005 04:33:19 GMT |
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 21:54:30 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
>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 merely points out that the koran is merely a historical document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...
There's that too.....
- Re: Free software movement similar to Islam?, (continued)
- Re: Free software movement similar to Islam?, John Bailo, 2005/10/21
- Re: Free software movement similar to Islam?, B Gruff, 2005/10/21
- Re: Free software movement similar to Islam?, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2005/10/21
- Re: Free software movement similar to Islam?, John Baker, 2005/10/21
- Re: Free software movement similar to Islam?, Colin Day, 2005/10/21
- Re: Free software movement similar to Islam?, Mark K. Bilbo, 2005/10/21
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- Re: Free software movement similar to Islam?, Mark K. Bilbo, 2005/10/21
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