Hi,
What have these guys been smoking !!
http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/02/24/1812244/Use-Open-Source-Then-Youre-a...
Sad to see such wayward equations :(
Best Regards Prakash N. Shetty Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:01 PM, prithvis@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
What have these guys been smoking !!
http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/02/24/1812244/Use-Open-Source-Then-Youre-a...
Sad to see such wayward equations :(
IMO, this is hilarous :D
The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) stance would not stand in any court of law.
Besides, the US Govt. is a big consumer of open source and it's National Security Agency (NSA) has been the architect of SELinux. Therefore by induction the US Govt., which is being asked to declare open source users as pirates, itself is a pirate. Not to mention, the US Govt. would have to lock up Intel, AMD, HP, IBM, Dell (all US based companies) for contributing code to open source and also selling solutions based on open source. Wow!
-- Arun Khan
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Arun Khan knura9@gmail.com wrote:
open source users as pirates, itself is a pirate. Not to mention, the US Govt. would have to lock up Intel, AMD, HP, IBM, Dell (all US based companies) for contributing code to open source and also selling solutions based on open source. Wow!
Oops, forgot to add Redhat, Novell, Oracle all US based. The list is long ............. but you get the picture
-- Arun Khan
On Friday 26 February 2010 12:56 PM, Arun Khan wrote:
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Arun Khanknura9@gmail.com wrote:
open source users as pirates, itself is a pirate. Not to mention, the US Govt. would have to lock up Intel, AMD, HP, IBM, Dell (all US based companies) for contributing code to open source and also selling solutions based on open source. Wow!
Oops, forgot to add Redhat, Novell, Oracle all US based. The list is long ............. but you get the picture
we will soon have google become the biggest underworld company by that standard. Wow, nice to know that people are so concerned about the end of their selfish closed attitude for knowledge sharing.
Happy hacking. Krishnakant.
On Friday 26 February 2010 12:56:06 Arun Khan wrote:
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Arun Khan knura9@gmail.com
wrote:
open source users as pirates, itself is a pirate. Not to mention, the US Govt. would have to lock up Intel, AMD, HP, IBM, Dell (all US based companies) for contributing code to open source and also selling solutions based on open source. Wow!
Oops, forgot to add Redhat, Novell, Oracle all US based. The list is long ............. but you get the picture
...the great god GOOGLE the other GOD RMS major saints like you and me minor saints like the rest on this list potential saints on other lists
The big bad GNU is hurting some small soft body real baaad. so they want big daddy to step in and save their a...while throwing tantrums and red herrings in courts. Now Google is an alleged monopoly. Hmmm is Yahoo dead?. NO it just went BING
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Arun Khan knura9@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Arun Khan knura9@gmail.com wrote:
open source users as pirates, itself is a pirate. Not to mention, the US Govt. would have to lock up Intel, AMD, HP, IBM, Dell (all US based companies) for contributing code to open source and also selling solutions based on open source. Wow!
When governments commit grand larceny it is economics :P
cheers -indra
On Friday 26 February 2010 12:51 PM, Arun Khan wrote:
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:01 PM,prithvis@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
What have these guys been smoking !!
http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/02/24/1812244/Use-Open-Source-Then-Youre-a...
Sad to see such wayward equations :(
IMO, this is hilarous :D
The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) stance would not stand in any court of law.
Besides, the US Govt. is a big consumer of open source and it's National Security Agency (NSA) has been the architect of SELinux. Therefore by induction the US Govt., which is being asked to declare open source users as pirates, itself is a pirate. Not to mention, the US Govt. would have to lock up Intel, AMD, HP, IBM, Dell (all US based companies) for contributing code to open source and also selling solutions based on open source. Wow!
Misguidance is the basis for terrorism. And for what ever selfish goals the concerned organisation (with the supports of other bigis ) is spreading not just misguidance about the concept of freedom or openness but also trying to induce fear in the minds of would-be users of free software (or what they call as open source). This is how terrorism spreads. The way many tryed to spoile the term "hacker" and mixed it with "cracker", this seems to be another attempt to attack basic freedom of humans. And by the way if business houses have no problem and if societies have no problem, then why should this arguement hold any stand in the first place?
If things like gambling and betting are considered to be good to the extent that they are not totally banned, then why should a pure transparent way of sharing software be considered to be theft or "attacking a ship?"
Happy hacking. Krishnakant.
Hi,
Imho this whole thing reeks of capitalism trying to crush freedom.
Trying to malign a peaceful freedom movement and branding them as a pirate/terrorist outfit can only be done by agencies that have colonial ruler like mentality.
The imminent scare of the open source revolution crushing their nefarious intents is quiet evident from their outburst.
Jaago grahak jaago is all I can say :D
Best Regards Prakash Shetty
Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel
-----Original Message----- From: hackingKK hackingkk@gmail.com Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:15:00 To: GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, Indialinuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Open Source is equal to Piracy !!
On Friday 26 February 2010 12:51 PM, Arun Khan wrote:
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:01 PM,prithvis@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
What have these guys been smoking !!
http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/02/24/1812244/Use-Open-Source-Then-Youre-a...
Sad to see such wayward equations :(
IMO, this is hilarous :D
The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) stance would not stand in any court of law.
Besides, the US Govt. is a big consumer of open source and it's National Security Agency (NSA) has been the architect of SELinux. Therefore by induction the US Govt., which is being asked to declare open source users as pirates, itself is a pirate. Not to mention, the US Govt. would have to lock up Intel, AMD, HP, IBM, Dell (all US based companies) for contributing code to open source and also selling solutions based on open source. Wow!
Misguidance is the basis for terrorism. And for what ever selfish goals the concerned organisation (with the supports of other bigis ) is spreading not just misguidance about the concept of freedom or openness but also trying to induce fear in the minds of would-be users of free software (or what they call as open source). This is how terrorism spreads. The way many tryed to spoile the term "hacker" and mixed it with "cracker", this seems to be another attempt to attack basic freedom of humans. And by the way if business houses have no problem and if societies have no problem, then why should this arguement hold any stand in the first place?
If things like gambling and betting are considered to be good to the extent that they are not totally banned, then why should a pure transparent way of sharing software be considered to be theft or "attacking a ship?"
Happy hacking. Krishnakant.
On Friday 26 February 2010 13:30:44 prithvis@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Imho this whole thing reeks of capitalism trying to crush freedom.
It isnt capitalism doing that. Just a tiny subset of capitalist companies who had good fun, first by being lucky (mommy and daddy's law firm were IBM lawyers - but that was a mere coincidence), then thru plain old pirating several others code and os. It is actually capitalism and free market for services that is giving them a hard time right now.
Trying to malign a peaceful freedom movement and branding them as a pirate/terrorist outfit can only be done by agencies that have colonial ruler like mentality.
+1
The imminent scare of the open source revolution crushing their nefarious intents is quiet evident from their outburst.
Jaago grahak jaago is all I can say :D
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