Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 24th Sep 2009 13:35 UTC, submitted by Hiev
If you don't like personal, blog-style reporting, you might want to skip this item. A few days ago, during a speech at Software Freedom Day in Boston, Richard Stallman has, at least in my book, crossed a line that I thought he would never cross.
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"De Icaza has done a lot of hard work to advance and promote the Free software community, and whether you like Mono or not, it is still a completely open source project, and enables cross-platform development for those who wish to code in C#. Why doesn't RMS deride the SAMBA guys in the same manner?"
Really? You really don't know the difference? You REALLY, REALLY, REALLY don't know the difference? If not, Microsoft has truly blinded you and there is probably nothing that will be able to help you, but here goes.
The SAMBA people are not helping a Monopolist company. There, I said it. If you still don't get it you have had your nose stuck up Bill Gates rear end for too long and you can't smell anything that isn't *** anymore.
Microsoft hater?
I'm against any group (company or not) that restricts choice.
Want into a computer store and try to order a computer with Linux. I'm not talking about a Whitebox store. I'm talking about stores like BestBuy, Costco, etc. Try to buy a computer with Linux on it with no signs of any kind about Windows. Can't? There you go.
Why can't you buy a computer with Linux on it, pre-installed, instead of Windows? It's easy. It's not that people wouldn't buy them. It's because of marketing money. Dell, HP, etc., know where their bread is buttered. Microsoft "gives" them 10s of millions of dollars a year for advertising which INCLUDES making it hard for anyone to find computers with Linux on their websites and for shipping computers with Linux to BestBuy and other stores.
"But BestBuy isn't ordering them", you might say. Well, it would be rather hard to order something that isn't available to be ordered. And currently, no they are not available to be ordered by companies like BestBuy, or whatever company you like to buy your computer through, with Linux on them.
So, for people that don't want Linux compromised, he really, truly, completely, how else can I say it, the guy IS a traitor and the SAMBA people aren't.