[svlug] A little on Open Source Philosophy...

[Todd Martin]

> > could do was ask him how he explained the Linux movement, but the truth is
> > the Linux movement is strongly founded in beliefs that underlie
> > socialism...people innovate because it makes them feel good; its for the
>
> YIKES!!!
> Maybe it's just me, but I find it disturbing when people compare
> FreeBSD/GNU/OpenSource/Linux to politics. I already get the warped
> comments from MS devotees that Linux is for extreme leftist radial
> nonconformist hippies et.al.  :-)
>

The socialist view is completely wrong, what could be more democratic then
everyone write whatever they want?

Its a ploy from commercial programmer to scare people out of open source.


>
> To me it's just a tool, but unlike most tools it's fully adustable,
> customizeable, ultra reliable,
> [insert_your_favorite_trait_here:]__________, etc.

Its a lot of things yes.


>
> Btw, anyone tried RedHat v5.2?

Nope don't care too either. 5.1 works fine, I'll wait till the 2.2 kernel comes
out and Red Hat finishes GNOME, then we'll be talking upgrade, till then it
would just be a waste. Why fix it if it aint broke.  mean really all 5.2 is more
of the same thing.



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