User: Queer Boy

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On: Brazil Breaks Patent to Make AIDS Drug

Apparently BigBusiness (tm) has won out over Social Justice. I found it interesting that the highest moderation points went to posters stating (basically) that drug companies making money is more important than saving lives.

Fascinating statements coming from an Open Source community. "If there's no money in it, there's no reason to do it."

"Put your foot in your mouth enough times and eventually you're going to kick some teeth out."

Uh, was there a battle?

On: Will Open Source Lose the Battle for the Web?

Forgive me if I'm this is redundant (I didn't read every post), but I was unaware that Open Source was battling anything. I thought the point of Open Source was that we were sick of having to battle. Tired of crappy bloatware that had crappy tech support and cost too much. If there's any battle, of course it's MindShare. The way I see it, who cares if Big Brother wants to pay too much for a product that isn't very good. I thought we were writing Open Source for Ourselves. Even if no one is using Apache in the enterprise, I am using it as a personal web server with Mac OS X. Isn't that the point?

The AOL advantage

On: Time Warner Says Employees Must Use AOL Mail

In my opinion AOL is not a robust enough e-mail client due to it's instability, but it does have key advantages. AOL mail allows you to unsend. AOL mail tells you when a user has sent their mail, and when it has been read. You can't do that with pop/imap.

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