[DotGNU]freedom and the "quality of [GNU/]Linux" (was Re: DotGNU and business)

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Timothy Rue wrote:
> The genuine product of "Freedom" should be able to speak plenty loud on
> it's own and can only be gaged to the degree you design a system to
> contridict such Freedom.

Well, unfortunately, the spread of people who complain about the 
"quality of [GNU/]Linux" instead of focusing on what's really important 
reaches this list. No insults intended, but it is the symptom of a 
larger problem, of people looking at their computers as mere tools 
instead of active forces in their lives. And that attitude ignores the 
fact that freedom should be considered one of the factors in computing 
"quality". And by that measure, the GNU system, and its Free variants, 
are heads, shoulders, and anything else you care to mention above 
Windows in quality.

While it is important to teach people about freedom of software, the one 
area that the open-sourcers have forgotten, we already know there are 
other benefits <http://www.gnu.org/software/reliability.html>. Knowing 
those more familiar benefits can ease their initial fears about freedom.

--
Stephen Compall
DotGNU `Contributor' -- http://www.dotgnu.org

This societal shift is letting users take back control of their
futures. Just as the Magna Carta gave rights to British subjects, the
GPL enforces consumer rights and freedoms on behalf of the users of
computer software.
        -- Evan Leibovitch, "Who's Afraid of Big Bad Wolves"