New York Times Staff Editorial Promoting Linux

cotyledon writes "Today's New York Times editorial (Free Blah-Di-Blah) describes Linux as good for consumers and good for programmers. It recommends "Government units abroad and in the United States and individual computer users should look for ways to support Linux and Linux-based products. The competition it offers helps everyone." This is the paper's opinion, btw, and not a guest columnist."

Comments

Re:For those that don't have subscription

[gwernol]

communitarian spirit"?

This is an extremely odd choice of words. I would have used 'cooperative', wouldn't you? I wonder if their intent was to conjure up another commun- word. We may never know.

Communitarian has a very specific meaning that describes a recently-popularized political philosophy. Both Bill Clinton in the US and Tony Blair in the UK have talked about their political philosophy as inspired by communitarian ideas. As the name implies it proposes that communities are a central political unit.

You can find out more at places like: RadicalMiddle

I believe that calling the Open Source movement communitarian has some useful connotations.

Re:Use the free registration generator

[Rooktoven]

I've been registered for over 4 years and haven't got one pice of spam (that I am aware of) from the New York Times.

Re:Use the free registration generator

[Kunta Kinte]

Amen bro!

I couldn't agree with you more.

The NYTimes is asking *so* little for their content and use of their servers. Abusing their registration system is being extremely unreasonable IMHO, since for one we are not *forced* to use it.

If you don't want to give the information then don't read the articles!!

I for one would perfectly understand if NYTimes some day decides to banned links from slashdot.

*continues laments about sense of fairness in todays society...*