[AktiviX] Should we use Linux at all?

Alan Dawson aland at burngreave.net
Thu Apr 22 23:33:29 UTC 2004


Quoting Nick Hill <nick at nickhill.co.uk>:

 
> It would be better if the military budgets were much smaller and the 
> money put directly to good use, but this requires political effort.
> 
> Aiming to stop the military from using open software technologies is 
> certainly the wrong way to counter colonialism. Everyone can freely 
> benefit from improvements to the system made as a result of military 
> dollars spent on Linux system development.
> 
> 
As Linux moves into Military/IBM/Sun/Novell what hope for the new mode of
production based around the gift if open source ? such as mentioned here
http://springnight.burngreave.net/pipermail/aktivix/2003-September/000012.html


AED
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