[CS-FSLUG] Sydney Morning Herald: Cuba to Dump Windows for Linux
Don Parris
evangelinux at thefreelyproject.org
Thu May 19 22:44:45 CDT 2005
On Thu, 19 May 2005 19:32:37 -0700
David Aikema <daikema at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/19/05, Don Parris <gnumathetes at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Does anyone else here see the irony of Communist Cuba adopting libre
> > software, especially while the libre US continues its dependence on
> > non-free software. ;)
>
> I don't think that it's ironic at all. To me, the ideas of communism
> and open source seem to have a much closer correspondence then that of
> free enterprise and open source. Of course, communism in theory and
> communism in practice are two different things... human sinfulness
> always gets in the way.
>
I think libre software guarantees - and, quite possibly, inspires - free
enterprise. Just my opinion, though. :)
> Anyways, I think that the main reason for this is political...
> Microsoft is a US-based company after all, and it and the US don't get
> along to well. Hence, you gain access to and control over the source
> code so you can ensure that backdoors are in the compiled software
> (unless of course your compiler setup to insert those backdoors but
> let's not go there). I think that in China, there's actually a
> government-sponsored Linux distribution for example.
>
> David
>
> _______________________________________________
I felt that was obvious. However, since I am in the midst of Lessig's "Free
Culture", I am kind of mingling the concepts of a libre society with libre
software. Political or not, I find it a little humorous. Of course, I'm
weird like that.
Don
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