Re: HP will be migrating 15,000 desktops -- An Opinion only posting -
- From: AnonymousFC4 <afc4@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:32:31 -0700
Hello:
usually I tend, on this news-group to focus on the technical aspect of
Linux.
Now a bit of "opinion only":
I very much share the ideal of opens source leaders, like (in alphabetic
order) Stall, Torvald... and millions of open sources developers, users,
contributors.
Programming a computer, is just "an idea", and people may want to share
ideas, freely, and give the result of their thinking to others, so others
can add to it...
Some want to define thinking as an object which can be traded, so far no
objection...
But when they want to claim unlimited ownership of a lot of simple... or
complex thinking for ever (patents), I object on the base that knowledge is
a thinking, and that thinking, like the air we need to breathe, or the
water we need to drink, is a part of freedom.
And selling freedom... is just a sneaky re-institution of slavery!
Some one tried to patent the human genome.
Someone tried to patent the double click, the triple click, the quadruple
click...
Someone tried to patent an earth orbit. (and did!).
Einstein, Marie Curie, Galileo, Pasteur and many more gave their knowledge
to mankind...
Also claiming that if you legally purchase a piece of software, preventing
you to modify it, enhancing it, is in many ways similar to selling you a
car that you have no authorization to fix yourself, a house that you cannot
enhance.
The undeniable success of open source, shows two things:
1-The rejection of these strategies, to "dominate the world".
2-The strong will of the opens source supporters to change the "status quo
ante" (the previous one...).
Victor Hugo (19th century french writer) "There is nothing stronger that an
idea whose time has come".
This is what is happening for open source: its time has come, and reverting
the trend will be impossible.
I am glad that HP, joined the trends, but very large european institutions
already did, the largest bank of china, and very son open source will be
the standard.
By the way: software used for voting machines should be open source only, in
order to prevent fraud, and validate the integrity of the process.
Write to your favorite politician on this, propose a popular referendum if
the law of your country/state allows it.
This was my opinion.
I would welcome any dissent clearly written.
---
ray wrote:
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 05:06:45 +0000, Roy L. Fuchs wrote:
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:18:31 -0600, ray <ray@xxxxxxxxxx> Gave us:
Now if they would SELL it.
Sell what? That little app they wrote to do that task? It is FREE.
It is even included with this month's "Linux Format" issue. Perhaps
even others, and is likely available online as well. It is called:
"Instalinux"
Good luck.
It would be nice if they would sell computers with Linux installed -
actually make them readily available as an alternative to the MS tax.
.
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