Re: Why linux will win

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Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 05:59:11 GMT

On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 06:24:24 +0100, Andy Baxter <news3@earthsong.null.free-online.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I think you got him wrong - I just looked through about a dozen of his
> recent posts so as not to just make a kneejerk response, and he doesn't
> seem in favour of MS as far as I can see.

RedHat is a corporation too....

And the larger it gets, the more it will become like M$.

>
>> The Corporations of the present are every bit as fascist as those
>> of Mussolini's Italy.
>
> I think there is that element of 'we've got a system that will make
> everything work perfectly, as long as you all trust our authority and
> accept your place in it', and if you do something that goes outside that
> system then they either cut you out or cut you down if they can. Not sure
> that it's quite the same though, and using comparisons that don't quite
> fit can just blind you to what's really happening. I don't know enough
> history to be that sure what I'm talking about here, but my mental image
> of it is kind of different.
>
> andy.

That's reasonable. But there is no democracy or individuality or freedom
in ANY corporation. Degrees of the illusion thereof, perhaps...

Money/power is what really matters. All ideals are devoured by these concerns,
and the corporate body becomes more important than the individual.

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