On Jan 19, 2004, at 2:12 PM, Ramanan Selvaratnam wrote:
On Thu, 1970-01-01 at 05:59, Peter Jaros wrote:
^^^^^^^^^^
Birth of Unix :)?
Accident with a contraceptive and a time machine. Long story.
On Jan 15,
2004, at 6:32 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:
To me, that should actually generate demand for a
GNU-free
alternative, right? People can trust that it's not doing anything
evil, because the source is publicly available.
Unfortunately, most people in the toolbar market don't care.
I was amazed to find out (while getting some proper definitions by the
way) how much people who care about software futures are worried by
current practices.
They generally might not know the exact specifics of how source code is
compiled etc. but it is abundantly clear that the proprietary players
are pushing black boxes and that too along the ugliest global divides
like economic wealth to further such division. That includes support
for
oppressive practices.
Well. I'm impressed and duly corrected.
BTW, this
isn't to say open source isn't worth it in this effort.
It's
mainly just a rant about, well, whatever you call the uninformed
masses
of the computer world.
Windows users?
I do not fully understand what is said here but I disagree:)
MS-Windows user however conned out of the bottoms they might be ...
they cannot be written off.
Sorry. Don't mind me, it was just an attempt at humor, and a poor one
at that.
Broadcasting from the present once again,
Peter
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