Free Software compared to Terrorism - looks like the ultimate in FUD

http://www.theobjectiveobserver.com/articles/technology03.shtml
1. I do not see as much hate-filled rhetoric among Free Software
developers as the author sees.
2. The author claims that mentioning security vulnerabilities of
commercial software is an attempt to use Fear to persuade people to
switch to Free Software.  He ignores the other side of the coin - that
commercial software developers, who do not design their products for
security, are as guilty as pharmeutical manufacturers, who sell
defective medications.
3. Disregard of law by Free Software proponents - he ignores the
official position of respecting others' intellectual properties.  Those
who violate copyrights by file sharing are ones who would violate those
copyrights even if there were no Free Software.  The other example of
"theft" cited - Bruce Peren’s admission of “stealing time from Pixar to
work on Linux” - does not include evidence that Pixar considered this as
a theft, or that it was harmful to their business (which relied upon
Linux clusters).



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