Re: [Rant] DigitalOne's confusing FREE feature
"Jeffrey 'jf' Lim" <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Soh Kam Yung <[email protected]> wrote: > After reading the starting of this article [ > http://www.digitalone.com.sg/guides/article/12140 ] about 'FREE' > software [ http://www.digitalone.com.sg/guides/article/12162 ] I want > to stop. > > What's the point? At the start, he says: > > <snip> > > It appears to me that he does not know the difference between 'free > beer' and 'free speech' or even 'open speech'. > > It's no wonder 'important' people in dotSG don't get free/open > software (in contrast to, say, the government in dotMY) when the local > tech journalists don't get it right either. > I have often considered these guys "posers", rather than "journalists" - pretending to "report"... rather than doing the actual hard work of actually applying themselves, to truly understand before reporting. And it's not even software that they get wrong too. -jf -- "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." --Richard Stallman "It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not help." -- Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager, NVIDIA Corporation http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228 _______________________________________________ LUGS Mailing list - [email protected] List FAQ: http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq Info page: http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet To unsubscribe send an empty email to: [email protected]