When someone from China discovers something that sounds truly useful in a desert environment (And no, it isn't jello, since Jello would dissolve within a day at most, and they specifically mention a macrobe to dissolve the polymer) and this topic turns into an accusation of China's political policies. I would like to make the following notes:
1.People in countries increasingly threatened with desertification, like much of North Africa or Australia, could make very very good use of this, and I very much doubt that they will care where this comes from. 2.China is *not* heaven and is *not* a democracy and *is* communist and has been threatening Taiwan for decades and did invade Vietnam twice. However people live there and some seem to be quite proud of their country, irrespective of or because of what it does. 3.The USA is *not* heaven and *is* a democracy and has been threatening Cuba for decades, invaded Vietnam once amongst others. However people live there and some seem to be quite proud of their country, irrespective of or because of what it does. 4.I don't think all that many Americans know what Communism is apart from what they have gathered on supposedly "free" media such as CNN, etc. Economic factors in the media can force quite a lot to be changed in order to support certain views, or do you think CNN supports all news items equaly and fairly (/. vs. Microsoft for example)? 5.I also think that many Chinese have no idea what the so called free world is like. Their news isn't free either. But perhaps they accuse some US scientist of being a fascist (eg. Oppenheimer) although he did have a human side as well, even if one were pressed to see it.
For quite a long time I've wondered why there has been no investigation on MS's EULA's and Passport in the EU, since most of these contravene EU wide laws on Privacy of Data where explicit agreement is required before Data can be used or given to third parties and while I'm not sure about it alltogether, I think that MS's EULA's also contravene one or two EU laws in the EU with respect to bought products etc. (Trying to control the product after sale etc).
I was one of the many who wrote in to the EU commisioner to complain about Passport. If you make a lucid complaint and have a valid view on some MS abuse etc, mail the EU. They generally do respond if you're not spamming or flaming and it seems that they do take the issues up.
This is called adding value. It's what MS did to gain it's market dominance (with one or two other tactics which I won't mention here) and it's about time. Good on Ximian, Sun, OpenOffice.org and Mandrake. Good on them all.
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I seem to gather that this place was using NT/SQL and that no one really bothered to implement any real security policies. I presume that someone just got in with one of the many *old* hacks for NT, gave himself an admin password, stole some data and left. he probably bragged about it on irc and gave away the remote login id, which prompted others to have a go as well when they had nothing better to do. Fun for the whole family.
I can imagine this having some pretty heavy fallout in that sue happy state. A class action suite is bound to follow and I can imagine that after all the "investigations" and "commisions" have done their work and fired one or two fall guys, it'll be back to the same procedure.
RedHat is a tinv company compared to Microsoft, so I think the screaming, "RedHat goes to Redmond" is a bit premature. They are of course trying to compete with other distros or else they would not have offered those competitive upgrades for Mandrake and SuSE users. I don't think they are either as bad as some claim (rpm's etc) or as user friendly as SuSE or Mandrake. It's a company trying to make some money in fairly difficult times.
I really would wait and see what happens. If they start throwing cease and desists and legal suites around, that would be a better time to start an outcry.
IE on the Mac crashes about once a day to once every two days. IE (5.5) on my PC crashes about once evry two to four days. Mozilla on the Mac (OSX) goes haywire about once a week (RC2 is *much* better now and hasn't crashed on me once yet). Moz on my PC has crashed not once. I haven't noticed what you mean by slow at opening a new window because I use the Tabs in Mozilla which are instantaneous.
I have just read one page of trolls and flamebait and the usual anti Mozilla responses such as it is bloated, slow, non CSS compliant, buggy, no one uses it, etc.
Consider this: 1. It is the *one* browser that is nearly 100% standards compliant. IE's non-standard standards may be de facto standards in many cases, but those pages on the web that do in fact use those are very small in number and are usually on websites which are not heavily frequented, Microsoft's own pages being the exception to prove the rule. 2.If you use Quick Launch with Mozilla, it loads part of itself into memory and then starts up about as fast as IE does. 3.It is the *one* browser that renders pages in the same manner across all supported platforms. IE does not do this for example between the mac and Windows. Opera is one version behind on the Mac and it remains to be seen when they get to 6 there. 4.It is, in my experince, more stable than IE on Win and Mac. I experience fewer crashes with the latest RC's than I do with IE on Win and mac. 5.It is definitely more secure than IE. It has it's security bugs, but in no way as many as IE does. 6.You can have an influence in the way this browser is developed. Do you have the same influence with IE or even Opera for that matter? If Netscape dies, Mozilla will carry on. 7.For those who say that the browser share market belongs to IE, I say let's look again in a year. Netscape used to own the market and lost it because of Microsoft's tactics and a poor product that was less standards compliant than IE. This could change again. 8.For those who troll that Mozilla is only at 1.0RC3 and in one year has only gotten here from a 0.9 version, perhaps you should realise that the Mozilla developers are not in a competition for version numbers with IE. Netscape plays this game and has released version 7.
All that said, you're free to use whichever browser you like best on your platform.
I increasingly wonder with all this reliance on high tech weaponry when someone or country will develop an easy to use EMP (Electro Magnetic Pulse) device. It is a factor with nuclear weapons that the explosion releases an EMP and that this is extremely destructive to circuitry and most things digital, unless they are very well shielded in some type of Faraday cage.
If an EMP device, without the nuclear explosion bit, were to be developed and were easy to deploy, it would make most modern high tech weapons helpless and costly white elephants. It would, I think, take most nations back to a world war I or II level and make for some interesting adjustments in international balance of power.
Am I seeing this wrong? Are most modern planes etc shielded against the effects of EMP?
To all those people who think this is an overpriced machine: You're right! Yes, you're right. It is expensive. Will it sell? Yes. Why? Because Apples target markets, Video and audio production companies and schools and colleges who already have large installed bases of macs will buy them.
If you're one the I_can_build_my_pc_at_3am_while_snoring_loudly crowd you would probably always go for an x86 parts anyway. But do you run a company off it? Who do you go to if the server breaks down? Do you have a guarantee? Do you have easy managment tools? Can you configure Appletalk on the server side?
I have no doubt that this machine fits in somewhere in the middle of the pack for stats alone and that you can get cheaper and more expensive x86 machines, with SCSI etc etc. But it will still sell. I can't prove it to you, but I vote we take a look in six months when it the RAID option have been out for a few months.
If someone made a game, where you would be "playing" the "other side", planting bombs in buildings or flying planes into civilian buildings or perhaps even blowing yourself up in a shopping mall or doing mission training in a remote montainous country, would you play it?
I am willing to risk a lot of karma points on this one, because I find it absolutely amazing that a load of people get so worked up about a comment that should be, IMO, thought provoking if anything.
Firstly I am absolutely against militaries of any nation glamourising wanton killing and making life seem as cheap as it is at the end of a barrel of a video game. I am probably stupid but I see a difference between a game company making a game for the market and that same company making a propaganda tool for the military (again, irrespective of what nation it is) because that is what this is: a propagnada PR tool.
I am very much against things like this because they make life cheap and they don't provide anything like a real picture of what a soldiers life is like (vis. the sim's comments "in the mess" etc) or why those wars are being fought (i.e. the ratings comments).
I AM NOT claiming that Saddam Hussein is a nice guy who should retire after his term of office and go and live in palm beach, but I very much do wonder why it seems like the god given duty of american politicians to drum up support, which is not forthcoming from anywhere outside the US, for the destruction of his fairly f*cked up regime? Especially since it was previous American administrations that allowed him to get as powerful as he is today and actively supported him in the early stages of the Iran Iraq war.
This game doesn't ask you to think why those previous administrations didn't give a flying f*ck about gassed Kurds because those same administrations were of the opinion (rightly or wrongly) that an independant Kurd nation would dangerous to the stability of the region. This is the point: no administration cares about freedom loving peoples or anything like that. Saddam's regime while definitely having built AND USED WMD in the Iran Iraq war on Iranians (where, again, no one gave a damn) is much more of propaganda demon, IMO, than he really is. The Gulf war was fought about oil, not about, freedom or WMD.
These games don't mention things like this or even ask you to make up your own mind or *search* for more information. That's why I dislike them.
FWIW, I worked for the USAF for two years in the '80s.
I know this is paranoid, but it is interesting to note that the same agents could have access to information gathered from the carnivore tool db and use it to threaten internet users for not paying tax on time or whatever if given some cash by certain other companies. The opportunities for abuse are boundless when the system itself is corrupt.
With NN6/Moz there is finaly *one* cross platform browser that supports *all* the standards (or at least 99,9% of them). IE on the Mac is a very different kind of animal compared to IE on the PC.
I use a Mac with OSX and a PC with win 98 and win2000. I use IE5 and Moz1rc2 on the Mac and IE5.5 and Moz1rc2 on the PC. The result is similar - IE simply crashes more often on both platforms. I don't know why or if I installed something wrong but they do. IE is also noticably slower on Mac OSX and it is about equal on Win. The amount of security bugy in IE worries me, and while Moz has also had some, it's a long shot from some of the bad security bugs in IE.
I haven't laughed so much in a long time. I was sitting here giggling like a little girl. Good stuff. keep em coming. And the people take this so seriously. I agree 100% with him. The one and only good submarine film I have ever seen is "Das Boot". The director managed to capture the claustrophobic feeling like no other film I have ever seen. The only piece of crap in "Das Boot" was the German token "They weren't all Nazis" effort where the whole crew hates the nazi political officer. But the film was good. Most submarine movies, especially the made for TV ones, all seem to be filmed in the same deserted warehouse.
If RealNames had instead tried to get on the ICANN bandwagon and had this done as a standard extension to the DNS system on the server side of the equation, they might still be around. Their options would have been much much bigger. They could have patented the system or just GPL'ed it and they would still have companies doing business with them. Their problem was greed, greed and more greed.
His Bill doesn't stop any company in Peru from buying anything. It simply says that public sector software has to have accessible source code.
It is so typical of an MS troll to go into denial when OSS gets any positive press. And your barrier to trade argument could have come straight out of Jim Allchin's mouth in the courtroom. Is this the new MS propaganda move? Try to claim anti-americanism everytime someone installs Linux and laughs at your win2k uptime.
You're right (my memory!! did a search). I'm South African and in Afrikaans it would have been "'n skitterende oomblik" if I had had it right. Sorry, hoor!
Could you perhaps be the same person who posted that other diffamatory note with the title "Why I don't like Villanueva"? In any case you are doing yourself an extreme disservice. Almost everybody believes that you are from Microsoft and asks why you are posting such stuff here? I would also belive that most people here see this kind of post as Fear on the part of Microsoft.
I don't know if I'm imagining it but everytime Villanueva's name turns up here on/. the anti-OSS trolling increases to a fevered pitch.
It seems as if opponents of this bill are very, very scared of the snowball effect that it could have. Peru is a poor country and is one of many on this earth. While I doubt that many of those countries have leaders that are as interrested in the wellbeing of their populace or as well articulated, I think there would be enough to see the benefits of a law such as this one, especially if it makes a notable difference in the IT landscape in Peru. Certain companies will certainly try to use dubious methods to try to silence efforts such as this, because it leaves them out in the cold, or did anyone think that poor countries had any possibility of expending their IT knowhow in any other manner?
It will not solve the problems you talk of but consider this:
Having access to the internet enables those people to exchange information, a process invaluable in terms of solving problems and sharing experiences.
It enables people to find cheaper practical ideas to the problems of getting clean water, roofing, medical aid etc which they might not have known about earlier.
It enables people to gather and process statistics, one of the oldest computing tasks, which is invaluble in helping them to see their problems as a whole.
It helps them to learn, and enables them to get access to learning materials which they possibly could not otherwise do.
If you are oversensitive, then it's because you obviously have some sort of vested interest in posting difamatory material as you do. I won't say you work for Microsoft but I will ask you where on earth you get your claim that Villanueva doesn't value human life and believes it to be expendable? I will also ask you on what you base your claim that he is spreading hatred and malice when it seems that that is more what you are doing? In addition to this I would ask you on what you base your claim that he is making the lives of the sick, old, disabled and unemployed miserable, since, judging from everything I've read about this man and looking at his origions and his work in improving the computing access in a region with extremely limited financial means, this is exactly the opposite of what he is trying to do.
While I don't agree with all his points - I think the OSS movement would definitely not be where it now is with Linus or closed/non-GNU software - I respect him for his principles. He has a very good point that if you don't value your freedoms you will lose them, because others tend to value your freedoms less than you do.
On the other hand, he would gain a lot of respect in the general Linux community if he would learn or at least value the principle of compromise.
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When someone from China discovers something that sounds truly useful in a desert environment (And no, it isn't jello, since Jello would dissolve within a day at most, and they specifically mention a macrobe to dissolve the polymer) and this topic turns into an accusation of China's political policies. I would like to make the following notes:
1.People in countries increasingly threatened with desertification, like much of North Africa or Australia, could make very very good use of this, and I very much doubt that they will care where this comes from.
2.China is *not* heaven and is *not* a democracy and *is* communist and has been threatening Taiwan for decades and did invade Vietnam twice. However people live there and some seem to be quite proud of their country, irrespective of or because of what it does.
3.The USA is *not* heaven and *is* a democracy and has been threatening Cuba for decades, invaded Vietnam once amongst others. However people live there and some seem to be quite proud of their country, irrespective of or because of what it does.
4.I don't think all that many Americans know what Communism is apart from what they have gathered on supposedly "free" media such as CNN, etc. Economic factors in the media can force quite a lot to be changed in order to support certain views, or do you think CNN supports all news items equaly and fairly (/. vs. Microsoft for example)?
5.I also think that many Chinese have no idea what the so called free world is like. Their news isn't free either. But perhaps they accuse some US scientist of being a fascist (eg. Oppenheimer) although he did have a human side as well, even if one were pressed to see it.
It depends on where you're looking from.
For quite a long time I've wondered why there has been no investigation on MS's EULA's and Passport in the EU, since most of these contravene EU wide laws on Privacy of Data where explicit agreement is required before Data can be used or given to third parties and while I'm not sure about it alltogether, I think that MS's EULA's also contravene one or two EU laws in the EU with respect to bought products etc. (Trying to control the product after sale etc).
I was one of the many who wrote in to the EU commisioner to complain about Passport. If you make a lucid complaint and have a valid view on some MS abuse etc, mail the EU. They generally do respond if you're not spamming or flaming and it seems that they do take the issues up.
This is called adding value. It's what MS did to gain it's market dominance (with one or two other tactics which I won't mention here) and it's about time. Good on Ximian, Sun, OpenOffice.org and Mandrake. Good on them all.
I seem to gather that this place was using NT/SQL and that no one really bothered to implement any real security policies. I presume that someone just got in with one of the many *old* hacks for NT, gave himself an admin password, stole some data and left. he probably bragged about it on irc and gave away the remote login id, which prompted others to have a go as well when they had nothing better to do. Fun for the whole family.
I can imagine this having some pretty heavy fallout in that sue happy state. A class action suite is bound to follow and I can imagine that after all the "investigations" and "commisions" have done their work and fired one or two fall guys, it'll be back to the same procedure.
RedHat is a tinv company compared to Microsoft, so I think the screaming, "RedHat goes to Redmond" is a bit premature. They are of course trying to compete with other distros or else they would not have offered those competitive upgrades for Mandrake and SuSE users. I don't think they are either as bad as some claim (rpm's etc) or as user friendly as SuSE or Mandrake. It's a company trying to make some money in fairly difficult times.
I really would wait and see what happens. If they start throwing cease and desists and legal suites around, that would be a better time to start an outcry.
IE on the Mac crashes about once a day to once every two days. IE (5.5) on my PC crashes about once evry two to four days. Mozilla on the Mac (OSX) goes haywire about once a week (RC2 is *much* better now and hasn't crashed on me once yet). Moz on my PC has crashed not once. I haven't noticed what you mean by slow at opening a new window because I use the Tabs in Mozilla which are instantaneous.
I have just read one page of trolls and flamebait and the usual anti Mozilla responses such as it is bloated, slow, non CSS compliant, buggy, no one uses it, etc.
Consider this:
1. It is the *one* browser that is nearly 100% standards compliant. IE's non-standard standards may be de facto standards in many cases, but those pages on the web that do in fact use those are very small in number and are usually on websites which are not heavily frequented, Microsoft's own pages being the exception to prove the rule.
2.If you use Quick Launch with Mozilla, it loads part of itself into memory and then starts up about as fast as IE does.
3.It is the *one* browser that renders pages in the same manner across all supported platforms. IE does not do this for example between the mac and Windows. Opera is one version behind on the Mac and it remains to be seen when they get to 6 there.
4.It is, in my experince, more stable than IE on Win and Mac. I experience fewer crashes with the latest RC's than I do with IE on Win and mac.
5.It is definitely more secure than IE. It has it's security bugs, but in no way as many as IE does.
6.You can have an influence in the way this browser is developed. Do you have the same influence with IE or even Opera for that matter?
If Netscape dies, Mozilla will carry on.
7.For those who say that the browser share market belongs to IE, I say let's look again in a year. Netscape used to own the market and lost it because of Microsoft's tactics and a poor product that was less standards compliant than IE. This could change again.
8.For those who troll that Mozilla is only at 1.0RC3 and in one year has only gotten here from a 0.9 version, perhaps you should realise that the Mozilla developers are not in a competition for version numbers with IE. Netscape plays this game and has released version 7.
All that said, you're free to use whichever browser you like best on your platform.
I increasingly wonder with all this reliance on high tech weaponry when someone or country will develop an easy to use EMP (Electro Magnetic Pulse) device. It is a factor with nuclear weapons that the explosion releases an EMP and that this is extremely destructive to circuitry and most things digital, unless they are very well shielded in some type of Faraday cage.
If an EMP device, without the nuclear explosion bit, were to be developed and were easy to deploy, it would make most modern high tech weapons helpless and costly white elephants. It would, I think, take most nations back to a world war I or II level and make for some interesting adjustments in international balance of power.
Am I seeing this wrong? Are most modern planes etc shielded against the effects of EMP?
To all those people who think this is an overpriced machine: You're right! Yes, you're right. It is expensive. Will it sell? Yes. Why? Because Apples target markets, Video and audio production companies and schools and colleges who already have large installed bases of macs will buy them.
If you're one the I_can_build_my_pc_at_3am_while_snoring_loudly crowd you would probably always go for an x86 parts anyway. But do you run a company off it? Who do you go to if the server breaks down? Do you have a guarantee? Do you have easy managment tools? Can you configure Appletalk on the server side?
I have no doubt that this machine fits in somewhere in the middle of the pack for stats alone and that you can get cheaper and more expensive x86 machines, with SCSI etc etc. But it will still sell. I can't prove it to you, but I vote we take a look in six months when it the RAID option have been out for a few months.
If someone made a game, where you would be "playing" the "other side", planting bombs in buildings or flying planes into civilian buildings or perhaps even blowing yourself up in a shopping mall or doing mission training in a remote montainous country, would you play it?
A lot of games enable you to play both "sides".
I am willing to risk a lot of karma points on this one, because I find it absolutely amazing that a load of people get so worked up about a comment that should be, IMO, thought provoking if anything.
Firstly I am absolutely against militaries of any nation glamourising wanton killing and making life seem as cheap as it is at the end of a barrel of a video game. I am probably stupid but I see a difference between a game company making a game for the market and that same company making a propaganda tool for the military (again, irrespective of what nation it is) because that is what this is: a propagnada PR tool.
I am very much against things like this because they make life cheap and they don't provide anything like a real picture of what a soldiers life is like (vis. the sim's comments "in the mess" etc) or why those wars are being fought (i.e. the ratings comments).
I AM NOT claiming that Saddam Hussein is a nice guy who should retire after his term of office and go and live in palm beach, but I very much do wonder why it seems like the god given duty of american politicians to drum up support, which is not forthcoming from anywhere outside the US, for the destruction of his fairly f*cked up regime? Especially since it was previous American administrations that allowed him to get as powerful as he is today and actively supported him in the early stages of the Iran Iraq war.
This game doesn't ask you to think why those previous administrations didn't give a flying f*ck about gassed Kurds because those same administrations were of the opinion (rightly or wrongly) that an independant Kurd nation would dangerous to the stability of the region. This is the point: no administration cares about freedom loving peoples or anything like that. Saddam's regime while definitely having built AND USED WMD in the Iran Iraq war on Iranians (where, again, no one gave a damn) is much more of propaganda demon, IMO, than he really is. The Gulf war was fought about oil, not about, freedom or WMD.
These games don't mention things like this or even ask you to make up your own mind or *search* for more information. That's why I dislike them.
FWIW, I worked for the USAF for two years in the '80s.
some of us don't. Not everyone here on /. is American and even those that are could use some humour every now and again.
I know this is paranoid, but it is interesting to note that the same agents could have access to information gathered from the carnivore tool db and use it to threaten internet users for not paying tax on time or whatever if given some cash by certain other companies. The opportunities for abuse are boundless when the system itself is corrupt.
With NN6/Moz there is finaly *one* cross platform browser that supports *all* the standards (or at least 99,9% of them). IE on the Mac is a very different kind of animal compared to IE on the PC.
Dialog and Microsoft is an oxymoron and your post is offtopic.
I use a Mac with OSX and a PC with win 98 and win2000. I use IE5 and Moz1rc2 on the Mac and IE5.5 and Moz1rc2 on the PC. The result is similar - IE simply crashes more often on both platforms. I don't know why or if I installed something wrong but they do. IE is also noticably slower on Mac OSX and it is about equal on Win. The amount of security bugy in IE worries me, and while Moz has also had some, it's a long shot from some of the bad security bugs in IE.
Therefore by default I use Moz.
I haven't laughed so much in a long time. I was sitting here giggling like a little girl. Good stuff. keep em coming. And the people take this so seriously. I agree 100% with him. The one and only good submarine film I have ever seen is "Das Boot". The director managed to capture the claustrophobic feeling like no other film I have ever seen. The only piece of crap in "Das Boot" was the German token "They weren't all Nazis" effort where the whole crew hates the nazi political officer. But the film was good. Most submarine movies, especially the made for TV ones, all seem to be filmed in the same deserted warehouse.
If RealNames had instead tried to get on the ICANN bandwagon and had this done as a standard extension to the DNS system on the server side of the equation, they might still be around. Their options would have been much much bigger. They could have patented the system or just GPL'ed it and they would still have companies doing business with them. Their problem was greed, greed and more greed.
His Bill doesn't stop any company in Peru from buying anything. It simply says that public sector software has to have accessible source code.
It is so typical of an MS troll to go into denial when OSS gets any positive press. And your barrier to trade argument could have come straight out of Jim Allchin's mouth in the courtroom. Is this the new MS propaganda move? Try to claim anti-americanism everytime someone installs Linux and laughs at your win2k uptime.
You're right (my memory!! did a search). I'm South African and in Afrikaans it would have been "'n skitterende oomblik" if I had had it right. Sorry, hoor!
Could you perhaps be the same person who posted that other diffamatory note with the title "Why I don't like Villanueva"? In any case you are doing yourself an extreme disservice. Almost everybody believes that you are from Microsoft and asks why you are posting such stuff here? I would also belive that most people here see this kind of post as Fear on the part of Microsoft.
I don't know if I'm imagining it but everytime Villanueva's name turns up here on /. the anti-OSS trolling increases to a fevered pitch.
It seems as if opponents of this bill are very, very scared of the snowball effect that it could have. Peru is a poor country and is one of many on this earth. While I doubt that many of those countries have leaders that are as interrested in the wellbeing of their populace or as well articulated, I think there would be enough to see the benefits of a law such as this one, especially if it makes a notable difference in the IT landscape in Peru. Certain companies will certainly try to use dubious methods to try to silence efforts such as this, because it leaves them out in the cold, or did anyone think that poor countries had any possibility of expending their IT knowhow in any other manner?
It will not solve the problems you talk of but consider this:
Having access to the internet enables those people to exchange information, a process invaluable in terms of solving problems and sharing experiences.
It enables people to find cheaper practical ideas to the problems of getting clean water, roofing, medical aid etc which they might not have known about earlier.
It enables people to gather and process statistics, one of the oldest computing tasks, which is invaluble in helping them to see their problems as a whole.
It helps them to learn, and enables them to get access to learning materials which they possibly could not otherwise do.
If you are oversensitive, then it's because you obviously have some sort of vested interest in posting difamatory material as you do. I won't say you work for Microsoft but I will ask you where on earth you get your claim that Villanueva doesn't value human life and believes it to be expendable? I will also ask you on what you base your claim that he is spreading hatred and malice when it seems that that is more what you are doing? In addition to this I would ask you on what you base your claim that he is making the lives of the sick, old, disabled and unemployed miserable, since, judging from everything I've read about this man and looking at his origions and his work in improving the computing access in a region with extremely limited financial means, this is exactly the opposite of what he is trying to do.
Finally, i would ask you who you are?
While I don't agree with all his points - I think the OSS movement would definitely not be where it now is with Linus or closed/non-GNU software - I respect him for his principles. He has a very good point that if you don't value your freedoms you will lose them, because others tend to value your freedoms less than you do.
On the other hand, he would gain a lot of respect in the general Linux community if he would learn or at least value the principle of compromise.