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The FSF, Linux's Hit Men
PrimeNumber writes "Forbes has this story about the Free Software Foundation and its quest for Cisco and Broadcom to release the source of GPL'ed linux source used in routers. Forewarning: The open source community is not portrayed in positive light so you might want to skip reading this. However it did help me gain insight into software from a PHB and suit perspective."
This should be considered a compliment.
It's like the Republican Right calling the ACLU, "hit men" (as has been frequently done in more or less words).
"Thank you sirs! Anytime you feel the urge to violate, suppress, or eliminate liberties and freedom, just give us a ring and we'll get on it."
Can't anyone spell it right? It's definitely, for crying out loud!
Ralph Nader, a big critic of the Microsoft monopoly, is very rich from investments in Cisco, which has much more of a monopoly control in its field ('Net routers) than Microsoft has over the "The Desktop".
Show your displeasure and refuse to vote for Nader. Oops, forgot, he only represents the interest of 1% of the voters already. There has to be some other way to get at this sanctimonions hypocrite. I know, buy yourself a Corvair!
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
The FSF is evil for enforcing the GPL, as opposed to proprietary software companies, who are doing the right thing when they enforce their licenses.