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

[Brett Johnson]

On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 16:46 -0600, John L. Bass 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.

Ahh, perhaps you're missing the prominent tongue-in-cheek used whenever
Linus talks about "world domination".  The whole point of FLOSS is to
make it impossible for anyone to "have control or power over people".
The express purpose of the GPL is to put that power directly in the lap
of the user/contributor of the code.  FLOSS is going to "dominate"
simply because it's going to make obsolete the idea that you can make
money from software by holding your customers/users hostage, and by
locking them into your software by restricting their ability to modify
or change it.

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