[Golden Eagle]

Hey I'll link to right here on Free Republic, and you'll see the Anti-Republican Rat pushing the DNC with a thread he created very shortly after he joined this site:

Democrats ahead of Republicans on Open Source

[FLAMING DEATH]

Yeah, whatever.

Why DO you keep up with all these leftist sites? You link to Stallman.com 3 or 4 times a week, usually. Scary.

[rzeznikj at stout]

Dude, keeping up with the leftists is not cool...

We get the point you don't like OSS. Suit yourself.

[N3WBI3]

Speaking of free republic who wrote the license its os is released under?

[antiRepublicrat]

Hey I'll link to right here on Free Republic, and you'll see the Anti-Republican Rat pushing the DNC with a thread he created very shortly after he joined this site:

And remember this comment?

Could it mean that Dims understand being frugal with donators' ( and thus taxpayers') money by working smarter instead of just throwing money at what's popular?

Nah, too much of a stretch. Must just be an accident.

After having looked at this more since then, I think the Democrats attached themselves to open source for the same reason they attach themselves to anything -- pandering. Also, they, like you, mistakenly believe open source is about socialism, so of course they like it. It doesn't mean anything except to fanatics like you.

And look further and you'll see the same position I still have,

It's time to get the government to consider software purchases solely based on merit -- I want my tax dollars spent better. ... "You must prefer Open Source over anything else" is pretty stupid. I just want the government to go for the best price/performance ratio

This must have pissed you off, since you strongly believe in corporate welfare:

OSS fits my belief in small government and the complete absence of corporate welfare.

From that and an earlier one, we can see I think the government should use OSS when possible to 1) save me money and 2) make sure released government documents can be read and/or used by anyone.

BTW, remember this bit about the zealots?

The movement has its fanatics, and I believe we have an equal dislike for them. Some of these people have not grown up to the point where they realize there is real business involved here.

Oooh, fun, I get to see an old statement of yours, "Because it's so obvious how much code it is. It's all the code that was in AIX, that now is in Linux. Which is tons." We now know that SCO couldn't even back up most of its claims with file and line number once it was finally forced to do so by the court. The hearing to get most of their "evidence" immediately thrown out is soon.

And a really funny thing. Remember your idea that government-sponsored open source should only be usable by Americans? Here's me from way back then:

I would like some kind of a license rather than public domain, because then you can say "free for use and resale by Americans" or something to that end.