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To: Golden Eagle
All open source isn't evil, that's the stigma you guys have tried to stick on me forever.

The only real open source I remember you not framing as evil is BSD-licensed code. Of course that doesn't make any sense, as the Chinese can take that as readily as GPL licensed code. You just don't like GPL because businesses can't take the code without giving any improvements back. You want it free for business, but not for the rest of us.

Apple has nothing to do with anything like that

China can download and run Darwin for their supercomputers just as they can Linux. They'll mainly be missing the pretty Apple shell, but distributions usually come with X11 instead.

but not when they try to take over the market, as the creators of their licenses absolutely intend for them to do.

Everybody with a product wants it to take over the market. It's human nature to succeed.

You seem to equate all open source proponents with Stallman, when in fact his following is small. Most people side with Linus, since most people aren't flaming leftists.

96 posted on 03/10/2006 5:45:53 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat
China can download and run Darwin for their supercomputers just as they can Linux.

Which you obviusly have no objections over. That is the scary part. But only one of them is a current problem, as the Chinese aren't interested in Darwin or Apple in the least. They are interested in our free copies of Linux, which is a complete operating system, not a simple core, and one they get completely free, for their own infinite use.

Everybody with a product wants it to take over the market.>

So you don't have a problem with the "copyleftists" who want to "make all proprietary software obsolete"? They're "human", so their rights and wishes should be respected as equal to our own?

You seem to equate all open source proponents with Stallman, when in fact his following is small. Most people side with Linus, since most people aren't flaming leftists.

Torvalds did a complete 180 in less than a week on whether he will use Stallman's new license, if you call that standing up to Stallman no wonder you let him walk all over you too. Sorry to be so harsh but you are so weak in your defenses of these people I have no time to sugar coat it for you. Either you allow these leftists to continue to dominate open source, or you move to products that don't use their license. So far you seem totally content with Stallman/GPL exactly as is, so you should expect some harsh criticism.

97 posted on 03/10/2006 3:42:33 PM PST by Golden Eagle
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