From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964958AbVLJHc6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Dec 2005 02:32:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964959AbVLJHc6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Dec 2005 02:32:58 -0500 Received: from c-67-177-35-222.hsd1.ut.comcast.net ([67.177.35.222]:139 "EHLO vger.utah-nac.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964958AbVLJHc5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Dec 2005 02:32:57 -0500 Message-ID: <439A7E8E.8010707@wolfmountaingroup.com> Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 00:06:54 -0700 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rms@gnu.org Cc: Coywolf Qi Hunt , luke-jr@utopios.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: GNU/Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario References: <21d7e9970512051610n1244467am12adc8373c1a4473@mail.gmail.com> <20051206040820.GB26602@kroah.com> <2cd57c900512052358m5b631204i@mail.gmail.com> <200512061856.42493.luke-jr@utopios.org> <2cd57c900512061742s28f57b5eu@mail.gmail.com> <20051210051628.E9E08CF4156@tsurukikun.utopios.org> In-Reply-To: <20051210051628.E9E08CF4156@tsurukikun.utopios.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Richard M. Stallman wrote: > > No proprietary software here, excluding things such as firmware/BIOS where > > there is no choice. > > Why 'excluding'? You can't deny you are using proprietary software. > Neither do us. > >The FSF chose, for its newest server, a machine that supports a >free BIOS. You can make such choices too. > >We are also trying to help the work to support free BIOS on a laptop >so that my next laptop can run a free BIOS. There are surely ways you >can help, too, if you want to be constructive. > > "constructive" is a for profit model that sustains the hi tech industry. The current models have created a conduit for socialist disintegration of the american hi tech markets, loss of jobs, and have funnelled technology out of the country. Legal defense funds should be the biggest red flags of all. If this system you devised really works, why all the litigation? Why all the need for legal defense funds and patent infringement insurance? I've watched the entire market slowly collapse over the years as the result of the affect of the GPL on America's hi tech markets. It isn't working, and it isn't sustainable. non-profit and "temples" of GPL "religion" have evolved, with the leaders living in orgnaizations that subsist from handouts and donations. This movement has spawned a global attitude that has no respect for IP rights, and it's extended itself to no respect for human rights, or any other rights of the indivdual. That's the legacy this has left and the ultimate conclusion. My 2 cents. J