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slave:
Besides all these anti-capitalist, anti-intellectual property ideas that come out of the GNU project are a clear attempt to destroy the American way of doing things.
Just read the "GNU Manifesto" and you can rename it to the "Comminist Manifesto" and there would be little difference. Stallman basically calls for the end to all owership of intellectual property, and thinks closed source is "damaging to our country's civic spirit." Well capitalism doesn't work that way; it's about greed, not need. The desire for the dollar drives this economy; that's why it costs 18 bucks for a cd that cost fifty cents to manufacture. That's why we need the DMCA so people won't go ripping off Metallica and Warner Bros. It's all about profit. When everyone is greedy, everyone prospers. RMS says "Everyone should have free software," well you take this idea of "helping the less fortunate" to its logical conclusion and you end up embracing communism. I for one do not want to see this happening in our country. I like it how our country rewards rock stars and paula jones with millions of dollars but pays scientists and teachers shit for salary, er wait nevermind. The point is snoop dogg is entertaining and he deserves his gold chains and beotches. He also deserves your money, so go worship him on MTV and buy his cd's, peeps. Or he'll bust a cap in yo' ass, bitch!
Master of Reality:
well... that was the stupidest thing i've heard in a long time.
AlexMax:
quote:Originally posted by Windows XP User #5225982375:
Besides all these anti-capitalist, anti-intellectual property ideas that come out of the GNU project are a clear attempt to destroy the American way of doing things.
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XP I want you to answer my question directly. Where the fuck do you get that defenition? America was founded on the principle that we were sick and tired of the British rulers tightening their reigns on us and telling us what we can and can not do.
Wait a second, I just created an involuntary analogy. See if you can figure it out...
XP, you do have a point about FreeDOS. However, you also don't see Dell's intentions. Microshit will not allow Dell to sell OS-less computers. And just think about all the technical support hassles that Dell would have to go through if it bundled Linux. What they are doing is packaging a rinky-dink OS (FreeDOS) that doesn't cost a dman thing, but still counts as an OS. They know that people will purchase a FreeDOS machine, throw the FreeDOS CD away, and install Linux. Everyone ends up happy. Dell doesn't have to provide Tech Support. Linux users get what they want. The only loser here is Microsoft, because Dell found a loophole in their agreement. And there isn't a damn thing M$ can do about it, since if they tightened up their agreement further, it would get the DoJ back on them.
That Michal Dell is one crafty person he...
[ August 15, 2002: Message edited by: AlexMax ]
choasforages:
well, i don't like the way our government is run anyway, besides, karl marx didn't call for oppression in the first place
POWER CORRUPTS, ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTLY.
in russia, the leader was given too much power, therefore it wasn't cummunism, it was a dictatorship.
RudeCat7:
It's just too f**king funny!
Check out linuxsucks.com and you will see that it's flooded with post from people that think Linux is great! How's that for a backfire?!
[ August 28, 2002: Message edited by: RudeCat7 ]
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