Linked by Henrik Nilsen Omma on Tue 9th Mar 2004 05:48 UTC
You, the reader, are hereby invited to participate in a celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) on August 28th this year. On that day we will stage public events to inform the general public about the virtues of FOSS. We invite you to form local teams and set up tables in town centers, shopping malls, or wherever there are likely to be lots of people on a Saturday.
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The manifesto is full of orwellian and eutopian claptrap. I wish more people would wise up instead of just 'pushing the party line'. Exercise intelligence and make an informed decision -- don't go with the crowd because its the 'in thing' (M$ sucks, etc.) to do.
Amongst the other claptrap that this author spews, I particularly like the reasoning that FOSS is good because the community goes by a 'credit should be given where credit is due' set of ethics, and the inferral that FOSS is somehow better because any other type of software release has no set of ethics to back it up. Preposterous. (Just as a sidenote, I've had people rip stuff out of my GPL releases without giving credit. Once to the tune of having to compare file hashes. Yeah, real community spirit there.)
Releasing early and releasing often - another concept not exclusive to FOSS.
Don't get me wrong, GPL and FOSS is all good, just not in the run-away direction it is heading, which would be the 'new cause' for any geek that missed the banding-together 60's hippie movement.