[NMLUG] SCO vs Open Source

[Aaron Birenboim]

Kevin Karns wrote:
> On Thursday 22 January 2004 10:59, Don Wilde wrote:
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>>Ken Long wrote:
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>>>http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1455153,00.asp
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> Good grief, what's next.  
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> I'll be writing a letter to my congressman to "draw [his] attention to" the reality that open-source is actually distributed capitalism.  Fortunately, he knows me on a first name basis, and doesn't think kindly of monopolies.  He coauthored NM's amicus brief against MS in the late nineties. 
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> Centralized capitalism doesn't benefit NM that much compared to other states.  

While you're at it, try to remind them of the idocy of
basing our country's defense systems on a black-box OS
with a habit of installing spyware.  Also that critical systems
should not be based on a closed source OS which cannot be debugged.
Not to mention the Govt. enforced monopoly.   What would happen
if the Govt suddenly passed down an edict that all Govt
offices will purchase only Ford cars.  (Like many branches do with MS)

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