[CS-FSLUG] Philosophical Debate

[Nathan T.]

On 11/9/05, Ed Hurst <ehurst at asisaid.com> wrote:
>
> Don Parris wrote:
>
> >>Who's right? I admit I tend to favor the former. All the more so for
> >>FreeBSD. This is because I view FOSS through the eyes of faith. I
> >>understand "narrow is the path" following Jesus, and the logic of that
> >>suits me. To find that in FOSS is comfortable and comforting. MS Windows
> >>is an example of what accommodation looks like, in my mind. It results
> >>in a hellish dependency and ignorance, and much waste of resources.
> >
> > This is truly scary, Ed. No, I mean it. Really. You're scaring me
> > here. I see so many similar parallels between our faith and FOSS it
> > isn't funny. But you can laugh if you want to! :-)
>
> I'm not laughing. I'm quite serious about it. The call of God on my life
> includes a calling to FOSS, and logic of that is obvious.



You haven't been spending too much time around Richard Stallman lately have
you? ;-)


If you're Christian convictions are telling you not to be enslaved by
unreasonable binding terms then I could see why you would feel this way, I
don't think God intended for us to be servants to a EULA either ;-)
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