On this day in the United States we celebrate our independence from what was reported to be a very oppressive government. Of course, since the victors get to tell the story and it all happened even before my time, I have little doubt there was another side. History may seem black and white, but I know the history I have lived through seldom was. Considering that it’s Independence Day, I think it important to use this opportunity to talk about protecting our freedoms and why they are important. We have a number of recent events that make excellent examples.
This was otherwise a well written well considered article except for your attack on Open Source. - Certainly there are a few loose nuts in the open source tool box, but this is true of any large aggregate of people. There are "Christians" who bomb subway stations, and "Islamics" who behead Americans wandering in their deserts. Neither of which justifies a blanket condemnation of all ascribe to creed. Open source is no different. - Your false generalization attack upon F/OSS has become tiresome. If you have real issues with Open Source as such, rather than that there are people you don't like who claim affiliation with Open Source, please state them plainly. - -- TWZ (aka ColonelZen at Yahoo, ipw, and elsewhere)
In other words, no you don't have anything against F/OSS other than to attack based upon personalities. There certainly has never been anyone using hostile tactics and intimidation, say threats, or perhaps stalking and actually haranguing someone's mother and bragging about it on the web by those antagonistic to F/OSS, has there? - -- TWZ
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Protect Your Freedoms in Face of Power Misuse
Posted by: Rob Enderle July 4, 2005 05:00 AMOn this day in the United States we celebrate our independence from what was reported to be a very oppressive government. Of course, since the victors get to tell the story and it all happened even before my time, I have little doubt there was another side. History may seem black and white, but I know the history I have lived through seldom was. Considering that it’s Independence Day, I think it important to use this opportunity to talk about protecting our freedoms and why they are important. We have a number of recent events that make excellent examples.
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Certainly there are a few loose nuts in the open source tool box, but this is true of any large aggregate of people. There are "Christians" who bomb subway stations, and "Islamics" who behead Americans wandering in their deserts. Neither of which justifies a blanket condemnation of all ascribe to creed. Open source is no different.
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Your false generalization attack upon F/OSS has become tiresome. If you have real issues with Open Source as such, rather than that there are people you don't like who claim affiliation with Open Source, please state them plainly.
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-- TWZ (aka ColonelZen at Yahoo, ipw, and elsewhere)
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-- TWZ