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From: | MaskedSlacker |
Subject: | Re: Free software movement similar to Islam? |
Date: | Sat, 22 Oct 2005 17:51:20 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20050923) |
harddrivecleaner@yahoo.com wrote:
Some similarities: 1. decentralized : there is no one Pope for either, although there are certainly Ayatollah wannabes in OSS like RMS. 2. imperialistic : just as muslim armies once attacked country after country, and today there is a "reverse crusade" & jihad happening, OSS is entering almost every area of software use and many OSS partisans are going to an extra effort to impose free software on their organizations, families, etc. 3. no dissent allowed : just as muslims feel compelled to attack anyone who speaks blasphemy, such as Salman Rushdie who merely points out that the koran is merely a historical document (therefore he must be killed), so alas OSS supporters become very angry when any dissenter speaks their mind.
Maybe we diverge into split personalities when we do this too, since I don't ever remember doing that.
4. destructive : OSS radicals want to get rid of even the copyright, and the GPL is written to strip software writers of their rights over their work (read it...); similarly muslim radicals want to rid the world of non-muslim people and impose taxes and prison time or worse on non-muslims.
That doesn't make anysense. Using the GPL on your work is entirely voluntary. Therefore you cannot say it strips rights away from a person using it. And as for the provision that derivative works must also be GPL, well no shit. What do you think MS would do if you made a derivative work of one of their products? Let you publish in whatever way you please? I think not.
And surely there are more similarities. This isn't to say that free software is all wrong, but it is better to know and think about the movement and whether it is going in the right direction than to let it become evil, like islam. The copyright for instance is so basic, to remove it would be so radical as to be insane.
Islam isn't evil you bigoted fuck. People twisting religion to their own ends are evil.
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