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On 07/22/2012 12:17 PM, <=K wrote:
I disagree completely. If it weren't for open source software, Trinity wouldn't even exist, Linux neither. If you find no value in OSS you should switch to Windows immediately.
That's not just incorrect, it's not even wrong. "Open source" is a lame buzzword to make businessmen and shallow IT people feel trendy and cool. Its a poor plagiarism of the original free software philosophy, watered down and diluted so you won't notice when your freedom is actually getting purloined behind your back. If you take "open source" away from free software you do not end up with Microsoft Windows, you end up with freedom.
Trinity and the Linux kernel owe their existence to choosing freedom respecting copyleft terms in their distribution, not the term "open source."