I agree. The internet, being anonymous and anarchic per se, is a nightmare to every authoritarian political system. Berlusconi's proposal only shows that western democracy is not far away anymore from countries like China and Russia, thanks to the aftermath of 9/11.
With AMD/ATI being the only competitor to Intel and Nvidia, their success guarantees low CPU/GPU prices. As soon as they'd go bankrupt, prices would go through the roof.
My next toy will be a 4870.
RMS defines 4 freedoms:
0: run the program as you wish
1: study and change the code
2: copy original
3: copy your modifications.
One important point that nobody has made yet is that Freedom #1 (mutation) and #3 (selection) are the basic evolutionary rules. Evolution is the most successful principle on this planet, it has made humans out of unicellular organisms. It has made Wikipedia such a success.
While looking at the history of Windows, we can see what happens if software is not free and has a monopoly: new versions are no advancements anymore but only serve to keep the monopoly.
So not only do RMS's freedoms allow us to trust software, they will also, in the long run, make sure, that software is getting better.
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Replace TR with AoC and the text would still be true.
I couldn't find RapidSSL in the list. Can anybody confirm this?
I agree. The internet, being anonymous and anarchic per se, is a nightmare to every authoritarian political system. Berlusconi's proposal only shows that western democracy is not far away anymore from countries like China and Russia, thanks to the aftermath of 9/11.
With AMD/ATI being the only competitor to Intel and Nvidia, their success guarantees low CPU/GPU prices. As soon as they'd go bankrupt, prices would go through the roof. My next toy will be a 4870.
Exactly the same would happen to CPU prices if AMD would go bankrupt. Intel would raise the prices ad nauseum.
One important point that nobody has made yet is that Freedom #1 (mutation) and #3 (selection) are the basic evolutionary rules. Evolution is the most successful principle on this planet, it has made humans out of unicellular organisms. It has made Wikipedia such a success.
While looking at the history of Windows, we can see what happens if software is not free and has a monopoly: new versions are no advancements anymore but only serve to keep the monopoly.
So not only do RMS's freedoms allow us to trust software, they will also, in the long run, make sure, that software is getting better.