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Software Livre, Anyone?

Posted by timothy on from the one-lump-or-emilio-umeoka dept.

tbray writes "They just had this huge OSS conference in Brazil. One good write-up by Simon Phipps is here. And hey, down there, OSS and Java play nice together."

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  1. Re:Open Source and Java by ShinmaWa · · Score: 0, Troll

    To be truly free [speech] software, your language cannot be under a corporate thumb like that.

    You say that as if its a universal axiom, yet its strangely unsupported in any way.

    However, there is a LOT of open source Java software (the excellent work going on at Apache Jakarta being just one of many fine examples). There is absolutely no reason whatsoever that Java programmers can't play in the open source arena along with anyone else.

    I find it very disturbing that RMS (and you) would attempt to verbally exclude all the open source software that thousands of developers are giving to the world every day simply to take a cheap political stab at Sun. I would like to think that F/OSS is INCLUSIONARY not exclusionary. However, I'm starting to think that RMS's position is becoming more and more that the only "true" open source software is that which is compiled using GNU tools. Everyone else can go rot.

    Not to mention, taking RMS's stupid logic to the extreme, there's no open source software at all, because once its compiled, the software is controlled by the closed machine language developed by nasty companies such as Intel who just want to keep people under their thumb... uh, what?

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  2. platform independence by dekeji · · Score: 0, Troll

    the people are open-minded, reasonable and friendly and recognise the value of platform independence as a vehicle of freedom.

    So, why, then, do they commit to using a proprietary platform owned and controled by a single company, Sun?

    I think a more realistic assessment is that the people of Brasil haven't been through quite the same intellectual property headaches that the people of the US have been, so they are perhaps not quite as sensistive to the problems that Sun ownership of Java can potentially cause.