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Re: Free software movement similar to Islam?
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wbarwell |
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Re: Free software movement similar to Islam? |
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Fri, 21 Oct 2005 09:10:00 -0500 |
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Joe Flannigan wrote:
> harddrivecleaner@yahoo.com wrote:
>> Some similarities:
>>
>> 1. decentralized : there is no one Pope for either,
>> although there are certainly Ayatollah wannabes in OSS
>> like RMS.
>>
>> 2. imperialistic : just as muslim armies once attacked country
>> after country, and today there is a "reverse crusade" & jihad
>> happening, OSS is entering almost every area of software use
>> and many OSS partisans are going to an extra effort to
>> impose free software on their organizations, families, etc.
>>
>> 3. no dissent allowed : just as muslims feel compelled
>> to attack anyone who speaks blasphemy, such as Salman Rushdie
>> who merely points out that the koran is merely a historical
>> document (therefore he must be killed), so alas OSS
>> supporters become very angry when any dissenter speaks
>> their mind.
>>
>> 4. destructive : OSS radicals want to get rid of even
>> the copyright, and the GPL is written to strip software writers
>> of their rights over their work (read it...); similarly
>> muslim radicals want to rid the world of non-muslim people
>> and impose taxes and prison time or worse on non-muslims.
>>
>> And surely there are more similarities.
>>
>> This isn't to say that free software is all wrong,
>> but it is better to know and think about the movement
>> and whether it is going in the right direction
>> than to let it become evil, like islam. The copyright
>> for instance is so basic, to remove it would be so radical
>> as to be insane.
>>
>
> You're an idiot.
A penguin scared his mother.
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- Free software movement similar to Islam?, harddrivecleaner, 2005/10/21
- Re: Free software movement similar to Islam?, Joe Flannigan, 2005/10/21
- Re: Free software movement similar to Islam?, Thomas Wootten, 2005/10/21
- Re: Free software movement similar to Islam?, John Bailo, 2005/10/21
- Re: Free software movement similar to Islam?, B Gruff, 2005/10/21
- Re: Free software movement similar to Islam?, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2005/10/21