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"Angus McBastard" <angusmcb@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> seajays@my-deja.com wrote:
> >
> > A good point about Free software.  However, the ideals being put
> > forward simply will not work in our Western, economy driven, capitalist
> > society.  Corporations will simply want to take any advantage that they
> > can, and if source code was free, the larger corporations would simply
> > be able to squash any competition by using any code, from anywhere.
> > Even if a small company had produced something unique, any advantage
> > that that gave them in competing with the 'big boys' would vanish.  And
> > with it the small companies would vanish.  Far from helping creativity,
> > it would actually make it impossible for smaller companies to compete.
>
>
> I don't think the author intends the ideals to work in a capitalist
> society (given name of the link eh?) :-)

Quite.

> But seriously,

I think they were being serious.

> I think you would be hard-pushed to convince me in any
> fashion that the proprietary software production model hasn't failed.

It has, the evidence is all around us.

> Ever pause to reflect on where we'd all be now if the stupid,
> middle-management inbreeds at IBM had decided to go with the 68000
> instead? :)

Also, were it not for the Apple Mac, we'd all be using DOS 27.

> > Now of course, if you're advocating changing the entire economic system
> > and eradicating capitalism, then it would be a different story - and I
> > may find myself supporting the argument for open source code.  :-)
>
> I should bloody cocoa hehe

Well, still a way to go on the evolutionary political bell curve then.  Never mind, I'll
wait.

Regards,

Mike

> Angus
>
>
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> It said WinNT 4.0 or better on the box.
> So I installed Linux.