Comments on: Boycott Amazon http://techrights.org/2010/02/23/boycott-amazon/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2010/02/23/boycott-amazon/comment-page-1/#comment-83562 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:46:21 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=27438#comment-83562 Amazon did not have to involve Linux in this.

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By: NotZed http://techrights.org/2010/02/23/boycott-amazon/comment-page-1/#comment-83507 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:56:01 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=27438#comment-83507 Hmm, although this rubs me up the wrong way something terrible, I didn’t write any code inside linux, and so I guess I shouldn’t get upset. And It’s really no different from Google paying for patents on video codecs behind the back of the people who wrote them in places they don’t even apply.

If these projects refuse to embrace the GPL3 that (I presume) gives projections against such behaviour, then I guess they shouldn’t get upset either. They have had ample opportunity and warnings about this.

The whole patent concept is a broken one, not just software patents. But it is just another symptom of a world which is descending step by step into oligarchy and corpocracy in a seemingly unstoppable fashion. And given that even bigger issues facing our future freedoms and prosperity are falling on deaf ears, I think things are going to get a lot worse before they get better.

But I suppose it’s just `pragmatic’ to go along with the flow, rather than fight to maintain hard-won freedoms like some `religious zealot’.

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