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Linux: The OS For The Greedy
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| I use Linux for two reasons, the first of which is because it performs better
| than Windows Vista, undeniably. I do not have to sit around in a frustrated
| mood waiting for Windows to unfreeze after attempting to perform a basic
| function. My second reason, to be a frank spokesman of chivalry, is that
| Microsoft has spit on it's customers. It never provides on time, nor what it
| promises, nor for a reasonable price. Microsoft represents the cons of
| capitalism, receiving a product of inferiority when being promised
| superiority, being betrayed and being left helpless.
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http://politicsoftechnology.blogspot.com/2008/11/linux-os-for-greedy.html
Business vs. FOSS: Six Pressure Points
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| The question of whether business can co-exist with free and open source
| software (FOSS) was settled long ago. It can, and not only successful
| companies like Red Hat but also the willingness of venture capitalists to
| fund FOSS business models proves the case.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3785311/Business+vs.+FOSS
+Six+Pressure+Points.htm
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"Kinder capitalism"? It's called open source, Mr. Gates. You should try it
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| There are other reasons that open source fits Mr. Gates' call for a "kinder
| capitalism." The point is that the open-source revolution Mr. Gates has long
| fought is the single-best answer for building global (IT) economies, just as
| it's doing in Europe right now according to the European Union.
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| You should try giving away open source as part of your foundation, Mr. Gates.
| You could undo much of the wrongs you've done the world's IT economy.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9858132-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
The GPL is a capitalist's best friend
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| The GPL simply protects through transparency and openness, not opacity and
| closed doors. Many of the industry's most successful open-source vendors use
| the GPL for this very reason.
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9896565-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Soviet Microsoft
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| The New Soviet Union.
| Microsoft isn't evil for being Microsoft, but because its leadership
| values control above delivering good products or advancing the state
| of the art. Rather than competing in the market, Microsoft's
| leadership has pursued a strategy of repeatedly deceiving the market.
| The result has been decades of productivity losses that negatively
| impact the rest of the world's economy and distract humanity away from
| technical achievement to instead fiddle with shoddy software that is
| weak because it was developed outside of competitive pressure....
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| However, the iron fist of resistance to outside ideas was as
| destructive to the USSR as the inbreeding of royalty was to Europe's
| empire nations before it. Microsoft is facing the same failure by
| arrogantly pushing old strategies and ignoring the potential of open
| source. Microsoft's anti-open rhetoric even sounds a lot like the
| Soviet's view of free markets, laced with fear-based propaganda that
| promises dire consequences for experimenting with the open source
| ideas that are already proven to work outside of the Red Square of
| Redmond....
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http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2007/12/13/soviet-microsoft-how-resistance-to-free-markets-and-open-ideas-will-the-unravel-the-software-superpower/#more-1347
What's all the FUD about?
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| My favorite, classic FUD comes from Steve Ballmer. "There's no company called
| Linux, there's barely a Linux road map. Yet Linux sort of springs organically
| from the earth. And it had, you know, the characteristics of communism that
| people love so very, very much about it." Here, Ballmer went to the route of
| the American psyche. How many Americans, to this day, still cringe a little
| in fear at the voicing of "communism"? If there's anyway to turn Americans
| off from buying a Linux PC, it's to emblazon the image of a big, red, Soviet
| Flag on the face of Linux, to conjure up an image of FIdel Castro reciting
| his communist propaganda from a speech he'd written on his openoffice,org
| word processor, to strike fear into our hearts at the thought of a Wisconsin
| Senator named Joe McCarthy barging into our houses in the middle of the night
| to send us away to prison for life because we owned an Ubuntu PC. I can't say
| if this FUD actually worked; it was so preposterous, and so few people give
| any credence to what Ballmer says anymore, that people might have just
| laughed at it. But it does show the depths to which proprietary software
| makers will go to keep the Linux and open source software threat out of their
| wallets.
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http://linuxhow2.com/Feature_Articles/What_s_all_the_FUD_about.html
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