On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, billg wrote:
^^^^^
I hope I'm not being trolled.
First of all, I'm not sure there are /any/ politics in Open Source. Open
Source, as a movement, is pretty much politics-free (or at most,
laissez-faire libertarianism); that movement is all about trying to engineer
software in the most efficient way possible. And that's a noble virtue in
its own right.
> I'm increasingly annoyed by the politicization of much of the Linux
> community, or at least the part with a visible face on the web.
>
> Too much ranting about evil corporations, evil monopolies, the evil RIAA
> and other assorted evil minions of The_People_Who_Don't_Use_linux. Stop
> shouting and go write some code, OK? We understnad how you feel, honest.
> But all that emoting and posturing isn't going to make a good OS better.
However, you might be confusing the Open Source software movement, with the
Free software movement. The latter was founded as a political and tangible
reaction to existing political and business pressures, and as such, will
never exist without politics. To desire otherwise, would be to desire
gourmet cooking without any actual food.
If you don't like reading it, hit the 'n' key, or add the author to your
killfile. Your loss.
Best Regards,
Alex.
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