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Sun's McNealy Wants Obama to Push Open Source
CWmike writes to tell us that Sun's Scott McNealy is pushing for the Obama administration to adopt a much more open-source friendly policy similar to what has been done in Denmark, the UK, and other countries. "Although open-source platforms are widely used today in the federal government -- particularly Linux and Sun's own products, Solaris and Java -- McNealy believes many government officials don't understand it, fear it and even oppose it for ideological reasons. McNealy cited an open-source development project that Sun worked on with the US Department of Health and Human Services, during which a federal official said 'that open source was anti-capitalist.' That sentiment, McNealy fears, is not unusual or isolated."
Juvenile self masturbation.
This site five years ago used to be a very good discussion board for computing technology.
Now we get crap like this:
"If there was one way to sum it up, it would be "Together we stand. Divided we fall." Because at some point everyone, even enemies, have to work together if they want to move forward. Open Source just happens to be the technological way of working together. :-)"
Go grab a miniskirt and some pom-poms if you want to do cheer leading and stop filling the site with your rah-rah karma whoring blather.
...calling something "anti capitalist" is an example of extreme praise and insight. There is absolutely nothing good from those bastard billionaires and their corrupt and rotting greed based "screw everyone" socioeconomic policies they have infected the planet with. They think nothing of ripping off entire nations, forcing millions to literally live and slave away in sweatshops or huge plantations or risk their lives for pennies in unsafe mines. They'll let people die for lack of a few of their bankers debt notes by with holding medicines. they profit from famine by driving up the price of foodstuffs with their 'commodity trading". They think nothing of profiting from pushing war and pain and bloodshed as a growth industry, something to be rewarded. And so on.
Fuck those assholes. If it wears a black suit to work, beware, you are staring at a demon walking the planet disguised as a human being.
The "theory" of capitalism has a few small points in its favor, the practice of it today...it's just wrong, we need a better way to do things and evolve as a species beyond basing everything on greed and creating artificial scarcity.
Closed source software makes their profits on a dubious claim to functionality then demanding big sums for artificial scarcity. Open source makes profit by actually getting things done cheaply and efficiently, allowing functionality to be custom developed to suit everyone's needs, and and eliminating scarcity.
Open source doesn't label you a criminal if you use it and customize it to suit your purposes, closed source sends lawyers and the bought off bully boy pigs of government after you for doing that same exact thing.
Open source encourages sharing and collaboration, closed source encourages keeping things hidden and making collaboration in any practical numbers across the planet difficult or impossible, meaning the force multiplier effect of many new ideas and brains looking at a problem impossible.
Different ways of looking at things there, choose one
My god are you a you fucking imbecile.
Please just shut the fuck up. It's like having to listen to some high school kid who looked a few things up on Wikipedia running his mouth off about economics and political systems.