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Don't Be a Sharecropper

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stuff-to-read dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Tim Bray, best known as an XML Heavy, has an entertaining rant about why you should be developing for *n*x, OSS, or (especially) the Web. Because if you're on a proprietary platform, you're a "sharecropper"."

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  1. IAWTP by josh+crawley · · Score: 1, Troll

    I Agree With This Post.

    The best thing for large scale adoption of Free Software is for this and other RMS/ESR sort of religious, philosophical propaganda to be buried where corporate manager types can't find it. The thing that these people don't understand is that, although the average bearded crypto-communist zealot may begrudge Microsoft et al. for being profit minded, other corporations don't.

    If the arguments for Free Software revolve around price vs. performance, and how it will increase your corporations profit, then corporate managers are willing to tune in. I can't see this conversation happening in a board meeting: "We should convert all our major systems from Microsoft to Free alternatives because I just read on the Web the other day that 'we're nothing but sharecroppers!'"