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[First, the Open Source issue]: It is very much appropriate for this
forum and to the livelihood of programmers, which I suspect is why Mr.
Gibbs has not stopped it.
[Second, this forum and free speech]: This being a forum organized and
set up by him, and being his sandbox, as I have said before, makes it at
the same time an exercise of his own right of free speech if he views
something as beyond the limits of either the topic, or the limits of
civil discussion, according the clearly stated rules for it. David has
shown objectivity in his enforcement, which makes it all the more seem
like the open air. It's his calll and he's generally more than fair
anyway. So here's to David.
[Third, on free speech]. I obviously agreed that free speech is not even
enforced in practice. But as a theory and as an ideal it has obviously
overturned tyrranies all over the world many times, and to dismiss it as
irrelevant to practical matters is to lose all perspective. It's bad
enough in this day when companies would still buy a database product
from a company whose CEO loudly proclaims that privacy is dead, it's
over, get over it, and get used to being without it, and he wants to
provide the database (free to the government) to watch everybody!
[Fourth, loss leader etc.] Third, the point about "loss leader" was only
one example of a long list to answer the implication that it "robs" anyone.
[Fifth] So if we agree on how it works, and it's "best for some things
and not for others", and that nobody is robbing anyone, then I do not
see where there is any any argument, except to say "much ado about
nothing", a euphemism for another dictionary word mentioned in a
previous post and shown to be appropriate by the dictionary definition
also posted.
- Alan
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Re: Economics of non-free "Open Source", (continued)
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