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

[James DeWitt]

Those people don't seem to be on this mailing list.

Using the term "dominate" is perhaps an ironic joke: FOSS 
may dominate the market or control people by forcing them 
to choose what software to use.  Contrasted with actual 
dominating behavior (by Microsoft, etc.), it is humorous. [citation needed]

JD


On Thursday 18 September 2008 5:03:58 pm John L. Bass wrote:
> That's fine, as long as we all understand the context. There are
> however, a fair number of FOSS advocates that have a very well defined
> goal of removing all non-FOSS alternatives from the market. In that
> context, Dominate has a very different, and exact meaning that is very
> far from just humorous. Chilling is far more accurate.
>
> John
>
> Jim Hutchinson wrote:
> > 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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