Re: Pedio Maxis to Kentro tis Athinas

On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:39:04 -0800, Drexl Spivey wrote:

On Feb 6, 10:36 am, sarX <x...@xxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:22:24 +0000, sarX wrote:
On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:14:53 -0800, Drexl Spivey wrote:

The private charities like the Bill Gates foundation have done a lot
more for those in need than any stupid government agency out there.
They follow the trail and know where the funds go. Some UN funds
funneled for those in need in Africa end up in the corrupt
government's pocket.

Yes. Now look how Bill Gates makes money:

Well, If you choose to read one-sided comments on some Linux rant and
accept them as fact, it is your problem. Fact of the matter is that Bill
Gates has spent nearly half of his fortune helping others, which set the
stage for other billionaires to do the same. That is a lot better than
most people


You expect from MS to admit it?



http://blog.mandriva.com/2007/10/31/an-open-letter-to-steve-ballmer/
"We presented the solution to the local government, they liked the
machine, they liked our system, they liked what we offered them,
especially the fact that it was open, and that we could customize it for
their country and so on."

How cute!
That was a good laugh. Thanks


You're welcome. More laugh here:

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/executive_tech/
article.php/3719776



Billy the Shark was right when he said "The GPL is anti-american".

Well, how can you have commerce if all things are free? It's a very
short sighted view.


Linux distributors are commercial companies who make money by selling
professional support for an OS that is waaaaaaay better than any Windows
version thanks to GPL plus it's free. Nothing can beat "better" + "free".
If capitalism works, this is the certain death of commersial consumer OS,
espesially when the quality is as low as the MS OS.
So what's your problem? If you want professional support pay for it.


And this Gates and Balmer bashing is immature, most likely rooted in
jealousy. I wish I was as accomplished as they are.


Immature? Well yes, it's about ethics.



GPL.... very few care, especially Version 3. Open source looked like a
good idea for a couple of years but when things started to break and
people wanted support, and support was a nightmare.... something like
"check the usenet and the bulletin boards". Now most open source
conversions I know in IT shops are shifting away from open source. The
money you pay for the OS is miniscule compared to the support nightmares
you face.


http://www.ubuntu.com/support

Like it or not it is the open source movement that will break MS monopoly.
You like monopolies? You must be a commie. ;-)



GPL 3 is simply nonsense. It says you can never make any money off of it
and you have to make your private signing keys available. Good luck
getting developers to adopt it. Even Linus Torvalds is not nearly as
activist anymore and said no to GPL3. This is what happens when
half-baked ideological activism attempts to become mainstream. Sane
people reject it.


"I also don't necessarily like DRM myself," Torvalds wrote on the "Linux-
kernel" mailing list. "But...I'm an 'Oppenheimer,' and I refuse to play
politics with Linux, and I think you can use Linux for whatever you want
to--which very much includes things I don't necessarily personally
approve of."



This whole "blaming the powerful" thing is outplayed and outdated.
Somehow a good number of Greeks in Greece seem to want to hold on to it.
I understand it's attractive because you get to blame someone else for
your shortcomings and feel good, but in the end it gets you nothing and
nowhere.

Yeah whatever.
.

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