I'm personally not in the GNU/Linux camp, if anything it should be Linux/GNU. I mean the gall, not only to change the name of somebody else's project, but to try to take top billing too! That's just rude.
If you're in the GNU/Linux camp, then you should break out your checkbook and make your check payable to:
Free Software Foundation 59 Temple Place - Suite 330 Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA gnu@gnu.org
Until you've put your contribution in the mail, even $1, I don't want to hear you say GNU/Linux again.
Let's talk about something a little more interesting. Why are we putting up with this current system? Instead of talking about the broken slander laws let's talk about the fact that corporations have the rights of citizens. (Non Humans have the right to free speech.) Microsoft has the right to create FUD. (There's no FUD law yet!)
If anything is holding back the evolution of the human species it's FUD!
Stop FUD Now!
If you're not familiar with Noam Chomsky. These Ideas tend to relate to what he's written... More on Chomsky here
It's easy to police, to be funded a project must have a open mailing list, and every finacial transation between the project and the escrow company is sent to the list.
Escrow companies should only be companies that have a stake in the OSS movement, where your credability is everything.
The trick is paying the escrow companies for the cost associated with escrowing the funds, the bank account, the checks, the time...
Something like copyleft might work where each project has a t-shirt that copyleft sells, and in exchange for the business brought to copyleft by the project, they're willing to escrow funds for the project.
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I'm personally not in the GNU/Linux camp, if anything it should be Linux/GNU. I mean the gall, not only to change the name of somebody else's project, but to try to take top billing too! That's just rude.
If you're in the GNU/Linux camp, then you should break out your checkbook and make your check payable to:
Free Software Foundation
59 Temple Place - Suite 330
Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA gnu@gnu.org
Until you've put your contribution in the mail, even $1, I don't want to hear you say GNU/Linux again.
Out.
Add a way to order the boxes on the right and voila!
As if you didn't have enough geeks sucking up!
Let's talk about something a little more interesting. Why are we putting up with this current system? Instead of talking about the broken slander laws let's talk about the fact that corporations have the rights of citizens. (Non Humans have the right to free speech.) Microsoft has the right to create FUD. (There's no FUD law yet!)
If anything is holding back the evolution of the human species it's FUD!
Stop FUD Now!
If you're not familiar with Noam Chomsky. These Ideas tend to relate to what he's written...
More on Chomsky here
It's easy to police, to be funded a project must have a open mailing list, and every finacial transation between the project and the escrow company is sent to the list.
Escrow companies should only be companies that have a stake in the OSS movement, where your credability is everything.
The trick is paying the escrow companies for the cost associated with escrowing the funds, the bank account, the checks, the time...
Something like copyleft might work where each project has a t-shirt that copyleft sells, and in exchange for the business brought to copyleft by the project, they're willing to escrow funds for the project.