Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 30, 2004 11:15 PM
<rant> Linux represents freedom from all the IP bull that is so pervasive in the computing industry right now. Let's hope that people (users particularly) use their heads and don't get sucked into some "business model" way of thinking.
Think about this. Linux got to be a big thing before ANY major computer company got involved. If you disagree, then you don't understand that none of the big players would have gotten involved if it hadn't been such a growing movement among people who really understand computers! They jumped in because knowledgeable people, not Joe Average, were adopting Linux in droves already.
Have such businesses "added value" to Linux as a whole? Sure, they've added some. But not nearly as much as the developers and users have. And the items they add usually are simply to distinguish their distribution from others. Nearly all the core software is the same!
So don't buy into the "we have to do it the way the big players say we do" crap. It's not true. They need us a hell of a lot more than we need them. </rant>
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 30, 2004 11:15 PMLinux represents freedom from all the IP bull that is so pervasive in the computing industry right now. Let's hope that people (users particularly) use their heads and don't get sucked into some "business model" way of thinking.
Think about this. Linux got to be a big thing before ANY major computer company got involved. If you disagree, then you don't understand that none of the big players would have gotten involved if it hadn't been such a growing movement among people who really understand computers! They jumped in because knowledgeable people, not Joe Average, were adopting Linux in droves already.
Have such businesses "added value" to Linux as a whole? Sure, they've added some. But not nearly as much as the developers and users have. And the items they add usually are simply to distinguish their distribution from others. Nearly all the core software is the same!
So don't buy into the "we have to do it the way the big players say we do" crap. It's not true. They need us a hell of a lot more than we need them.
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