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06.22.08

Links 22/06/2008: Free Software Enters Gujarat’s Education, Linux Appears in Unexpected Places

Posted in News Roundup at 5:06 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

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6 Comments

  1. gggggg said,

    June 22, 2008 at 8:44 pm

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    You continue to promote closed source, proprietary software while you have the nerve to criticize Mono, Moonlight, Novell and Microsoft.

    If you continue you’re nothing more than an hypocrite.

  2. Victor Soliz said,

    June 22, 2008 at 10:31 pm

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    You continue to promote closed source, proprietary software

    The only parts in the whole article that could be called advocacy are the quoting perhaps? The rest are just links. So, this article is advocating : Linux, the GPL , openSUSE, FLOSS, FLOSS file managers. uh, your post looks like utter nonsense , sorry.

    you have the nerve to criticize Mono, Moonlight, Novell and Microsoft.

    Don’t dare to bother the holy ones, all praise to Novell and Microsoft…

  3. Roy Schestowitz said,

    June 23, 2008 at 1:22 am

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    You continue to promote closed source

    I suppose you’re referring to that game which is ported to GNU/Linux and another which is not Wine-compatible (and no, I don’t use Wine).

  4. PitaGuy said,

    June 23, 2008 at 2:03 am

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    http://www.ubuntu.com/news/db2cert

    DB2 is closed source. So Mark Shuttleworth talk about open source is just another vapouware. Mark does not believe is open source…he is just a hypocrite.

    Hypocrisy (or the state of being a hypocrite) is the act of preaching a certain belief or way of life, but not, in fact, holding these same virtues oneself.

  5. Roy Schestowitz said,

    June 23, 2008 at 2:12 am

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    I don’t use, develop or sell proprietary software. The exception might be the Flash plugin and blobs in the kernel.

  6. PitaGuy said,

    June 23, 2008 at 4:24 am

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    I hereby officially coin a new term “Open Source hypocrite (OSH)”

    A person/company who claims to be / believes in pro-open source but uses, buys, promotes(links to), sells, writes closed source software is a OSH in the increasing order. Uses being the least OSH and writing being the highest OSH.

    And the award for the biggest “OSH” goes to ……..GOOGLE

    Google – it is the biggest open source hypocrite on this planet. :D

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