There's something Interesting going on with all these marketing and lawyer fellows that like to make lotsa dire predictions about linux, how it's going to fail, etc. This is going to be a bit long, but bear with me please. It's bound to be interesting to us also.
People who are in marketing, lawyers, top-bosses, IT "journalists", etc, are really doing nothing. Actually, some, the more smart of them, actually know that they don't have a single valuable skill. They're like leeches, feeding off the work of those who really DO work, and --in our case-- like our work.
The thing is that they have to maintain this illusion of "work" in order to keep doing it. I mean, who wouldn't like to be propped up, made to feel like an important, knowledgeble, valuble person? It must be a heady feeling. And expensive also. Specially if your "work" doesn't actually produce anything. Nothing. Zip.
Then comes this new paradigm, which requires no money at all to enter, just true knowledge, or at least love of knowledge, true work; an expanded mind so to speak. It's only natural that they should fear it, after all, they know that they don't have anything to offer, that their lack of knowledge and work will become apparent if this new paradigm will become widespread.
Be prepared for lawyers, marketeers, "journalists", and the rest of their ilk to mount a fierce fight against this new way of life. Be prepared to fight leeches of all levels who are comfortable doing nothing, against this new form of enlightenment, where true ethics, and work, and knowledge, are the things to look for.
How many work in places where your bosses know nothing of the work that's done? How many actually respect your bosses as human beings and professionals? Very little, I suppose. It's the same everywhere. They are the ones who are gonna get purged, if this new paradigm takes hold.
But then again, maybe I'm mad, and these are just my rantings. But I do believe that this movement kicked into overdrive by Linux is much more important and pervasive than just the OS and computer arena; it can extend to every aspect of our lives, and to other's lives, if we know how to extend it.
An article about Open Source software and the article itself isn't viewable except by members.
I was once a member of IEEE, the organization itself sucks like hell, at least here in Mexico. I really regretted shelling out the money to subscribe, specially being a hungry student at the time (and their "computer" mag was always late on everything, playing catch-up to byte, etc).
I coincide,/. shouldn't display pay-subscription-site news. Like the guy said, 99.9999% of us won't subscribe just to read the thing.
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There's something Interesting going on with all these marketing and lawyer fellows that like to make lotsa dire predictions about linux, how it's going to fail, etc. This is going to be a bit long, but bear with me please. It's bound to be interesting to us also.
People who are in marketing, lawyers, top-bosses, IT "journalists", etc, are really doing nothing. Actually, some, the more smart of them, actually know that they don't have a single valuable skill. They're like leeches, feeding off the work of those who really DO work, and --in our case-- like our work.
The thing is that they have to maintain this illusion of "work" in order to keep doing it. I mean, who wouldn't like to be propped up, made to feel like an important, knowledgeble, valuble person? It must be a heady feeling. And expensive also. Specially if your "work" doesn't actually produce anything. Nothing. Zip.
Then comes this new paradigm, which requires no money at all to enter, just true knowledge, or at least love of knowledge, true work; an expanded mind so to speak. It's only natural that they should fear it, after all, they know that they don't have anything to offer, that their lack of knowledge and work will become apparent if this new paradigm will become widespread.
Be prepared for lawyers, marketeers, "journalists", and the rest of their ilk to mount a fierce fight against this new way of life. Be prepared to fight leeches of all levels who are comfortable doing nothing, against this new form of enlightenment, where true ethics, and work, and knowledge, are the things to look for.
How many work in places where your bosses know nothing of the work that's done? How many actually respect your bosses as human beings and professionals? Very little, I suppose. It's the same everywhere. They are the ones who are gonna get purged, if this new paradigm takes hold.
But then again, maybe I'm mad, and these are just my rantings. But I do believe that this movement kicked into overdrive by Linux is much more important and pervasive than just the OS and computer arena; it can extend to every aspect of our lives, and to other's lives, if we know how to extend it.
Good luck fellow warriors.
Hey! Sure you want his picture! Just enamel it on the inside of the urinals. It'll be fun to piss on him :-)
Just make sure to make it waterproof.
-elf
An article about Open Source software and the article itself isn't viewable except by members.
I was once a member of IEEE, the organization itself sucks like hell, at least here in Mexico. I really regretted shelling out the money to subscribe, specially being a hungry student at the time (and their "computer" mag was always late on everything, playing catch-up to byte, etc).
I coincide, /. shouldn't display pay-subscription-site news. Like the guy said, 99.9999% of us won't subscribe just to read the thing.
-elf