On Tuesday 20 Feb 2007 20:17:31 Vihan Pandey wrote:
Of course, he didn't push people into the pits. They chose to descend themselves for whatever reason.
Does a school child in 4th or 5th standard choose to be taught M$ windoze or is he taught that because a certain company and a certain minister and/or secretary and/or whatever made a ``deal".
Blame the person who made the deal then.
Btw, what makes you think that same child would like to be taught GNU or Linux? Say we manage to get FOSS to be taught in the schools, what if that child would like to learn Windows instead? Would you allow him that `freedom'?
It's a way to keep earning more and more money. Now rather than spend that money in casinos, its better if the person uses that same money for a good deed.
At what cost is that good deed coming? If the costs are acceptable to you - good for you, but they are NOT to me.
Ask those who might spend an extra day alive.
Again, look where your priorities are. I don't think that the people dying of AIDS would place a higher priority on software freedom than life.
I'm not saying he's a saint. He's not the devil either. He could have done a lot worse with all that money. He hasn't. He actually tried to do something good out of it. Praise him for that. Oppose him on the software front.
Keep in mind that, life doesn't always revolve around binary choices. This one certainly isn't. No one is entirely evil or entirely good. At least in my point of view. There's good in whatever small amount, everywhere. You only need the vision to spot it. I admire Hitler as well, but certainly not for the holocausts.
``If you're not with me, then you're my enemy.''
``Only a Sith deals in the absolute. I will do what i must.''