How about a small pulpit icon, to represent that the following story contains religious views regarding open source software?
While there are many of us who enjoy contributing to open source (myself included), the fact remains that the majority of people who program for a living are constrained to do so on proprietary platforms of one form or another, even if they are working on proprietary applications built on top of open source software.
Articles (and topics) such as these, while nice trollbait and conversation fodder, nonetheless constitute a view that is basically a religious viewpoint - the position that giving up your evil proprietary platforms and converting to one of the true open source ways will save you, while somehow not causing you and your family (and bandwidth hungry habits) to starve to death, is as much a position based on blind faith as any other I've ever heard.
The best thing for large scale adoption of Free Software is for this and other RMS/ESR sort of religious, philosophical propaganda to be buried where corporate manager types can't find it. The thing that these people don't understand is that, although the average bearded crypto-communist zealot may begrudge Microsoft et al. for being profit minded, other corporations don't.
If the arguments for Free Software revolve around price vs. performance, and how it will increase your corpora
The best thing for large scale adoption of Free Software is for this and other RMS/ESR sort of religious, philosophical propaganda to be buried where corporate manager types can't find it.
Propaganda implies a lack of reason. Attack their points instead of their persona.
The thing that these people don't understand is that, although the average bearded crypto-communist zealot may begrudge Microsoft et al. for being profit minded, other corporations don't.
"They" don't begrudge Microsoft for being profit-minde
"They" don't begrudge Microsoft for being profit-minded. I'm not sure which "they" you are talking about, but "I" begrudge Microsoft for trying to control and manipulate their users and destroy competition even when they have near 100% marketshare.
You miss my point, but you prove it nonetheless. Try to walk into a corporate boardroom and convince a Fortune 100 company to buy into Free Software because "Microsoft tr[ies] to control and manipulate their users and destroy competition even when they have near
Try to walk into a corporate boardroom and convince a Fortune 100 company to buy into Free Software because "Microsoft tr[ies] to control and manipulate their users and destroy competition
Um... IBM is a "fortune 100" company is it not? They seem to have a small truck with Microsoft's practices and methods. To the tune of how many million in OSS funding again? Maybe it is all just a publicity stunt but the cash is real.
Pursuing a level playing field is not the same thing as attempting to blame all the
Articles (and topics) such as these, while nice trollbait and conversation fodder, nonetheless constitute a view that is basically a religious viewpoint...
Using Microsoft products is becoming more and more blatantly counterproductive to the free world as we know it.
We now see whole divisions of the U.S. military and government throwing billions of dollars at hopeless Windows standardization projects and putting them at the mercy of one corporation. We see whole foreign national governments trying to pry
This article doesn't seem very religious to me. It outlines what a sharecropper is, why it's bad to be one, and what the alternative is. It suggests that the web platform is not a sharecropping platform, and that it is the best way to avoid getting caught in the sharecropping trap.
I think parts of it are wrong. For example, the web platform is virtually owned by Microsoft. And remember that fuss when MS started giving Opera faulty stylesheets?
Other parts are too vague-- Mac OS X uses fork() and bash.
Feel uncomfortable when your subservience is pointed out huh? Don't like having it shoved in your face that you're putting your business in the hands of Microsoft whenever you develop for their platform?
Unix is the worst operating system; except for all others.
-- Berry Kercheval
New topic proposal: OSS Pulpit (Score:5, Insightful)
While there are many of us who enjoy contributing to open source (myself included), the fact remains that the majority of people who program for a living are constrained to do so on proprietary platforms of one form or another, even if they are working on proprietary applications built on top of open source software.
Articles (and topics) such as these, while nice trollbait and conversation fodder, nonetheless constitute a view that is basically a religious viewpoint - the position that giving up your evil proprietary platforms and converting to one of the true open source ways will save you, while somehow not causing you and your family (and bandwidth hungry habits) to starve to death, is as much a position based on blind faith as any other I've ever heard.
Re:New topic proposal: OSS Pulpit - oh yes! (Score:2)
Re:OSS ESR RMS (Score:2)
IAWTP (Score:1, Troll)
The best thing for large scale adoption of Free Software is for this and other RMS/ESR sort of religious, philosophical propaganda to be buried where corporate manager types can't find it. The thing that these people don't understand is that, although the average bearded crypto-communist zealot may begrudge Microsoft et al. for being profit minded, other corporations don't.
If the arguments for Free Software revolve around price vs. performance, and how it will increase your corpora
Re:IAWTP (Score:2)
Propaganda implies a lack of reason. Attack their points instead of their persona.
"They" don't begrudge Microsoft for being profit-minde
Re:IAWTP (Score:2)
You miss my point, but you prove it nonetheless. Try to walk into a corporate boardroom and convince a Fortune 100 company to buy into Free Software because "Microsoft tr[ies] to control and manipulate their users and destroy competition even when they have near
Re:IAWTP (Score:2)
Um... IBM is a "fortune 100" company is it not? They seem to have a small truck with Microsoft's practices and methods. To the tune of how many million in OSS funding again? Maybe it is all just a publicity stunt but the cash is real.
Pursuing a level playing field is not the same thing as attempting to blame all the
Board members are hardly peasant folk.... (Score:2)
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Re:New topic proposal: OSS Pulpit (Score:1)
Only problem I see is that the icon would be applicable to every single story
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Re:New topic proposal: OSS Pulpit (Score:2)
Not encouraging OSS on Mac or Windows is simply shooting your self in the foot. Not that the fundamentalists care. So how's Hurd coming along, guys?
Re:New topic proposal: OSS Pulpit (Score:2)
Using Microsoft products is becoming more and more blatantly counterproductive to the free world as we know it.
We now see whole divisions of the U.S. military and government throwing billions of dollars at hopeless Windows standardization projects and putting them at the mercy of one corporation. We see whole foreign national governments trying to pry
Re:New topic proposal: OSS Pulpit (Score:2)
I think parts of it are wrong. For example, the web platform is virtually owned by Microsoft. And remember that fuss when MS started giving Opera faulty stylesheets?
Other parts are too vague-- Mac OS X uses fork() and bash.
Re:New topic proposal: OSS Pulpit (Score:2)
Feel uncomfortable when your subservience is pointed out huh? Don't like having it shoved in your face that you're putting your business in the hands of Microsoft whenever you develop for their platform?