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

Jim Hutchinson jim at ubuntu-rocks.org
Thu Sep 18 16:56:46 MDT 2008


On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 4:46 PM, John L. Bass <jbass at dmsd.com> wrote:

> 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.


Maybe domination here is used more humorously rather than to mean control
over people. Would it even be possible for FOSS to dominate in that sense
since by its very nature it aims to give control to the user.

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