Yes and yes. I'm not saying it's all peaches and cream here in the US. BUT, we can still own firearms unlike the UK. Honestly, that's about the only difference now between the UK and the US.
I remember when CC cameras were introduced to the UK and laughed thinking that it would never happen here in the US. Then after 9/11, my fellow citizens were screaming for more "security" and government was more than happy to oblige. Give it 5 years and you will see this crap in the US, for our "safety" of course.
THIS is the reason I own firearms, THIS is the same reason our Founding Fathers owned firearms - to hold off a tyrannical government. Unfortunately, the British people have given up their rights to defense.
This is nonsense that you rate me as flamebait. OBVIOUSLY a lot of businesses have my opinion and that's why this article was written in the first place. This isn't flamebait, this is reality. Not everyone in the business world embraces the concept of open source, me included.
At work, we use almost all OS to keep our costs down and increase profits. It's called CAPITALISM. Why in the hell would we want to just freely give something away to the "community"? That's COMMUNISM.
Before you say I'm trolling, we do buy the support contracts for the OS so we can get tech support when needed. That is our only "contribution" to OS. Also, with all of the layoffs and increased workload, why would a company want to throw away precious few resources on a "free" project? We're not a charity, we're a business and need to make money to put food on the table and roofs over our heads.
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Yes and yes. I'm not saying it's all peaches and cream here in the US. BUT, we can still own firearms unlike the UK. Honestly, that's about the only difference now between the UK and the US.
I remember when CC cameras were introduced to the UK and laughed thinking that it would never happen here in the US. Then after 9/11, my fellow citizens were screaming for more "security" and government was more than happy to oblige. Give it 5 years and you will see this crap in the US, for our "safety" of course.
THIS is the reason I own firearms, THIS is the same reason our Founding Fathers owned firearms - to hold off a tyrannical government. Unfortunately, the British people have given up their rights to defense.
This is nonsense that you rate me as flamebait. OBVIOUSLY a lot of businesses have my opinion and that's why this article was written in the first place. This isn't flamebait, this is reality. Not everyone in the business world embraces the concept of open source, me included.
At work, we use almost all OS to keep our costs down and increase profits. It's called CAPITALISM. Why in the hell would we want to just freely give something away to the "community"? That's COMMUNISM.
Before you say I'm trolling, we do buy the support contracts for the OS so we can get tech support when needed. That is our only "contribution" to OS. Also, with all of the layoffs and increased workload, why would a company want to throw away precious few resources on a "free" project? We're not a charity, we're a business and need to make money to put food on the table and roofs over our heads.
In my case, my to-do list has gone down. As we lost more clients we had to lay off more people.