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Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 00:40:19 -0500
From: Patrick McLean <pmclean@cs.ubishops.ca>
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Subject: Re: GNU/Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario
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Sorry to continue this OT thread.

Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>>
> "constructive" is a for profit model that sustains the hi tech 
> industry.    The current
> models have created a conduit for socialist disintegration of the 
> american hi tech
> markets, loss of jobs, and have funnelled technology out of the 
> country.  Legal
> defense funds should be the biggest red flags of all.  If this system 
> you devised really
> works, why all the litigation?  Why all the need for legal defense funds 
> and patent
> infringement insurance?   I've watched the entire market slowly collapse 
> over the years
> as the result of the affect of the GPL on America's hi tech markets.
> It isn't working, and it isn't sustainable.  non-profit and "temples" of 
> GPL "religion"
> have evolved, with the leaders living in orgnaizations that subsist from 
> handouts and
> donations.   This movement has spawned a global attitude that has no 
> respect
> for IP rights, and it's extended itself to no respect for human rights, 
> or any other rights
> of the indivdual.    That's the legacy this has left and the ultimate 
> conclusion.

If you are totally against "socialist" licenses and the OSS movement, 
what are you doing on this mailing list? I rather doubt many people here 
share your views, and I seriously doubt that you are going to convince 
anyone to change their viewpoints.

I suspect you are simply trolling, and I suppose I am taking the bait.
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