On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 13:02 -0500, Sid Dabster wrote:
What about Solaris on SPARC? That is a non-free OS. Are you also campaigning against Sun?
Sun Microsystems support open systems and claim to be making a lot of Solaris Open Source soon.
Open Systems has nothing to do with Free Software. Open Systems, ALSO, has nothing to do with Open Source.
The most likely to be a proper definition of an "open" system is a POSIX compliant operating system.
The "source" Sun is giving out is ONLY "open source" if you are in the context of Solaris. Use Free Software instead of Solaris, and they can sue you for patent infringement if they think they can get away with it: the patent promise is _only_ for Solaris context.
Suns definition of Open is you can open and look, maybe smell, but don't you think you can touch without our approval.
Being Anti-MS isn't enough
That why I suggested a Free Software Party originally, called the Linux Party, perhaps Free Software Party would be better even if less catchy.
Your reasoning for a political party is each time less honest. In the future, anyone searching for Sid Dabster + free software might find links to this mailing list's archives, like your mail
http://mailman.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/discussion/2005-March/004871.html
...and find such shallow sources for your motivation.
You're in a dangerous path. Dangerous because you'll likely do more harm than any good at all. Just looking at your motivations here gives glass feet to your party.
Rui