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Re:Perens And Mundie Both Miss The Mark

On: Perens Discredits Mundie's Attack On GPL

Free Software is devestating to the diverse "middle ground" of software that sells in the $20-$100 range. When GPL software dominates a market, we are left with low-quality free packages on one end and expensive "industry standard" or "specialized" software on the other.

Are you refering to the low-quality software like apache, openoffice, gnome, kde, gnucash, gimp, perl, ect...

Everything in is not free

On: DirecTV to Pursue Pirates

DirecTV has to pay for the content that they send out over the air. They have every right to expect to be payed for a service they provide. Don't give me the lame excuse "But I did not ask Directv to beam the signal on my house" because then you would also have to allow any wireless transmition to be free for any one to use as they please. This would include your cell phone, wireless phone, and wireless networking.

This is good for linux

On: VMware Signs Deal with Microsoft

VMWare has allowed me to get more linux installed in my office. This deal with MS will only help in my efforts.

I have found that I can install linux and VMWare with windows on a machine in our engineering dept and before long the user is spending more time using linux apps then windows apps.

Re:IBM is /not/ the nice guy

On: More Open Source and Linux Support from IBM

And this is a bad thing?

Exercise

On: Carpal Tunnel Surgery?

I had Severe carpal tunnel syndrome until I started working out 3 times a week. Give it a try.