Re: GNU/Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

Patrick McLean
2005-12-11T05:40:21Z

Sorry to continue this OT thread.

Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>>
> "constructive" is a for profit model that sustains the hi tech
> industry. The current
> models have created a conduit for socialist disintegration of the
> american hi tech
> markets, loss of jobs, and have funnelled technology out of the
> country. Legal
> defense funds should be the biggest red flags of all. If this system
> you devised really
> works, why all the litigation? Why all the need for legal defense funds
> and patent
> infringement insurance? I've watched the entire market slowly collapse
> over the years
> as the result of the affect of the GPL on America's hi tech markets.
> It isn't working, and it isn't sustainable. non-profit and "temples" of
> GPL "religion"
> have evolved, with the leaders living in orgnaizations that subsist from
> handouts and
> donations. This movement has spawned a global attitude that has no
> respect
> for IP rights, and it's extended itself to no respect for human rights,
> or any other rights
> of the indivdual. That's the legacy this has left and the ultimate
> conclusion.

If you are totally against "socialist" licenses and the OSS movement,
what are you doing on this mailing list? I rather doubt many people here
share your views, and I seriously doubt that you are going to convince
anyone to change their viewpoints.

I suspect you are simply trolling, and I suppose I am taking the bait.