[NTLUG:Discuss] Internet Explorer?

WILLIAM PEARSON WPEARSON at cyclix.com
Thu May 17 12:22:02 CDT 2001


Hello,

I'm appalled that some are comparing Open Source or Free Software to
Socialism, thats outrageous! If anything Open Source/Free Software is the
best thing to help ensure freedom to computer users and companies since the
popularization of the Internet. Linux has if anything increased the level
of freedom in computers due to increasingly restrictive liscence
agreements. So if you have found a bug, your able to fix it. If you do that
with Windows, Microsoft can, and probably will sue you, even though you own
the software.

Just goes to show how many unenlightened people to the freedom that
GNU/Linux offers.

Will



Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 22:28:56 -0500
From: Dennis Myhand <1dmm9671 at unixstew.tstc.edu>
To: discuss at ntlug.org
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Internet Explorer?
Reply-To: discuss at ntlug.org

Hi Rick:

How they can tell is (they think) by the type of work you turn in.  If it
is a
MS.doc document then they are certain you are complying with their rules
and not
doing something devious and un-American like using Star Office and saving
your
work as a MS document.  I really hate to say it but this school of mine has
gone
totally MS in the last year.  The head of my department even refers to open
source as "the Linux bunch and their socialist business model."  It is sad
when
we equate the freedom of the academic ideal to be considered nothing more
than a
"socialist business model."

I did look through the MS site today at work and found IE4 for Unix, and a
Solaris IE5 listed on the site.  I have no intention of putting IE on my
Linux
box, nor on my Solaris 8 box.  It ain't gonna happen, I don't care if they
do
find out I use Star Office and start knocking points off.  Thanks, Dennis
in
Waco

Rick Cook wrote:





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