Linux World domination (was Re: [NCLUG] PC for Linux (Ubuntu))

[John L. Bass]

There is a huge difference between making the best product available for 
whoever can use it, and advocating that use, over any form of domination 
which stiffles other ideas. From Wikipedia, *Domination* is the 
condition of having control or power over people, animals, or things.

Choice, diversity, are very good things in technology as they promote 
growth and improvement ... Domination and monopoly are not, even if open 
source. I'd much rather see goals based on providing diverse products 
that people follow, rather than eliminating competing ideas with a sharp 
focus on domination.

John


Brett Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 12:52 -0600, John L. Bass wrote:
>   
>> Paul Hummer wrote:
>>     
>>> However, I have read Linus' "World Domination 101," and I think we are 
>>> alot closer to that
>>>       
>> What's most disgusting is that people even think this is a good thing, 
>> that other good peoples jobs developing good software should fail and 
>> cease to exist, just with win what?
>>     
>
> Heh, I'm not sure what "just with win what" means, but I think FLOSS is
> a good thing, in the same way that the printing press was a good thing,
> even though it put a lot of scribes out of work temporarily.  I also
> think that automated textile looms are a good thing, even though it
> eliminated a lot of menial cloth-weaving jobs.  Those are examples of
> disruptive technologies that made our society so much more productive,
> that the temporary elimination of particular jobs was, in the long run,
> of very little consequence.  FLOSS is the same way, IMO.
>
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