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DATE | 2003-06-13 |
FROM | Dave Williams
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SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] The false profet (editorial)
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From owner-hangout-desteny-at-mrbrklyn.com Fri Jun 13 15:59:15 2003 Received: from www2.mrbrklyn.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by mrbrklyn.com (8.12.3/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id h5DJxFnT006500 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 15:59:15 -0400 Received: (from mdom-at-localhost) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id h5DJxFv6006499 for hangout-desteny; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 15:59:15 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: www2.mrbrklyn.com: mdom set sender to owner-hangout-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com using -f Received: from athena.spinnet.net (athena.100megabit.com [216.235.147.84]) by mrbrklyn.com (8.12.3/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id h5DJxEnT006494 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 15:59:14 -0400 Received: from dsc05-nyi-ny-2-23.rasserver.net (dsc05-nyi-ny-2-23.rasserver.net [205.184.163.23]) by athena.spinnet.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h5DK2GE18156; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 16:02:16 -0400 Subject: Re: [hangout] The false profet (editorial) From: Dave Williams To: David Sugar Cc: hangout-at-nylxs.com In-Reply-To: <200306131519.33054.dyfet-at-ostel.com> References: <200306131356.04927.dyfet-at-ostel.com> <1055531956.518.6.camel-at-connie> <200306131519.33054.dyfet-at-ostel.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1055534522.518.16.camel-at-connie> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 Date: 13 Jun 2003 16:02:03 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Dave Williams List: New Yorker GNU Linux Scene Admin: To unsubscribe send unsubscribe name-at-domian.com in the body to hangout-request-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com X-Evolution: 000006e4-0000 X-Keywords: X-UID: 13334 Status: RO Content-Length: 1480 Lines: 33
Damn, that is amazing. He's not even talking about Free Software, just Open Source software, which he claims to advocate. I'm sure Bruce Perens has something conciliatory to say about this, even if it contradicts his previous statements (like his march in San Francisco).
What is wrong with these people? Stanco is obviously a capitalist and a careerist, who can't accept the idea that some things serve the public interest better than the marketplace. I've read the letter by Villanueva before, and you can't find a more eloquent statement in any language to illustrate this idea. If Stanco can admit that educating children is better accomplished through "Open Source", how great of a leap is it to extend that to storing public information and manipulating public data?
Why must we suffer these reptiles among us? I hope Richard slams the hell out of Stanco when he speaks at GWU.
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 15:19, David Sugar wrote: > You need to go to linuxtoday. See > > http://linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2003061300926OSLLPB and read: "Stanco: > Opinion on Brazil Making Open Source Mandatory in Governmen". > > And you may get a good idea of why what he said made me so angry. For extra > credit, compare his comments to those expressed by Microsoft's peruvian > manager in opposing 1609 :).
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