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Interview with Dr. Villanueva
cigarky writes "I think many of us were very impressed by the recent letter of Peruvian Congressman Dr. Edgar David Villanueva Nuñez. Linux Today has a followup interview with more in-depth information."
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The "subsciption model" for software just won't work. There will be a lot of resistance to move from a "buy once" model to a scheme where licenses must be periodically renewed, or a "pay per use" model.
Microsoft is just trying to extract the extra buck from consumers, which is natural for most corporations. But when your software costs hundreds per copy, people will resist.
I am the evil aardvark!
Today it was announced Stallman is boycotting linuxtoday.com until it changes its name to the "correct" gnulinuxtoday.com and now recoomends everyone use Windows in protest until this change is made across the GNU/Linux world!
To be President, you have to be at least 35 years old and a *natutal born citizen*.
So, there's no danger that clones of dubya will rule the USA for the rest of eternity. Guess we're lucky after all.
Be wary of any facts that confirm your opinion.
Well, I'd like to speak to a few points here:
Bush only won the electorate not the popular vote. -- which is a fancy way of saying `I think the (rich, generally left-leaning) large coastal states should get to decide who the new president is single handedly'. Our founding fathers felt differently, and thus established the electoral college to ensure that a candidate would need a broad base of support and not just the popular vote to become president.
Give the rich a unnecessary tax cut -- we probably don't have time to go into the economics of why cutting taxes creates more jobs, and thus helps people at all levels of society, but I would like to point out that far from being solely a Republican idea, this fact was well recognized by JFK, who pushed his tax-cut in very similar terms to the current round of cuts. As to `for the rich', I suggest you look at the economics of these cuts -- almost all were in areas like the estate tax and middle-income-brackets which the rich don't pay anyway, but which middle class businessmen shoulder the burden of.
As to helping people in need, well we've all seen how the Republican welfare reforms of 1996, which I give Clinton credit for signing, have resulted in more improvement in the number of people getting off welfare and into work than any of the programs of the previous 30 years. Of course, you'll have to decide for yourself whether when you say `help people' you mean `keep them on welfare' or `help them get a job and return to society.' I see the latter as much more helpful.