I values freedom of information and cool stuff that works well.
This basically makes me a GNU sort of guy.
What do I do about all these coporates jumping on my bandwagon? Nothing. I use stuff that meets what I value, and rememebr that we got this far without them. They didn't matter then and don't matter now, at least not in a way that guides what I do.
If what this community has done is so great, then the last thing we shoudl do is change as soon as somebody (or some corporation) agrees that it's great, but wants to change it.
People like Linux becuase it's good. If we keep making good things, world domination will happen naturally. If people don't like what we make, chances are we still will and we'll have the stuff we like.
What more do you want?
The NCL is not what I like, so I won't use it. I'll just go back to doing what I did before and save my public displays of opinion when somethat that actually tries to stop me comes up. (Like the US government's ideas about privacy or regulating the net.)
NEw liscences, new apprioaches, new coproate ideas about our community,... they all fall under the utlimate equalizer that is the internet. It will be only as big as it is cool in the eyes of the netizens.
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I values freedom of information and cool stuff that works well.
This basically makes me a GNU sort of guy.
What do I do about all these coporates jumping on my bandwagon? Nothing. I use stuff that meets what I value, and rememebr that we got this far without them. They didn't matter then and don't matter now, at least not in a way that guides what I do.
If what this community has done is so great, then the last thing we shoudl do is change as soon as somebody (or some corporation) agrees that it's great, but wants to change it.
People like Linux becuase it's good. If we keep making good things, world domination will happen naturally. If people don't like what we make, chances are we still will and we'll have the stuff we like.
What more do you want?
The NCL is not what I like, so I won't use it. I'll just go back to doing what I did before and save my public displays of opinion when somethat that actually tries to stop me comes up. (Like the US government's ideas about privacy or regulating the net.)
NEw liscences, new apprioaches, new coproate ideas about our community,... they all fall under the utlimate equalizer that is the internet. It will be only as big as it is cool in the eyes of the netizens.
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