Comments on: When Microsoft Racketeering Meets Apathy http://techrights.org/2010/02/24/linux-foundation-re-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/2010/02/24/linux-foundation-re-amazon/comment-page-1/#comment-83756 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:28:23 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=27522#comment-83756 I don’t think they ever disclosed the numbers. If they had, I didn’t noticed.

BECTA is no better than a parent imposing a belief system upon a child; to make matters worse, BECTA is neither a parent nor does it have a right to make that “belief system” an abusive corporation from another country.

]]> By: Needs Sunlight http://techrights.org/2010/02/24/linux-foundation-re-amazon/comment-page-1/#comment-83753 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:25:50 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=27522#comment-83753 Speaking of secret deals, what happened with M$ versus the UK schools? BECTA was going to publish how much the UK flushes down the drain on M$ products. How much did it turn out to be?

]]> By: your_friend http://techrights.org/2010/02/24/linux-foundation-re-amazon/comment-page-1/#comment-83700 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:10:08 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=27522#comment-83700 No one can speak for the Linux kernel, it is free software and has no owners. The Linux Foundation may do good or bad things to Linux and they own the trademark, but ultimately, GNU/Linux belongs to each person who uses it as long as the user avoids non free software. Linux itself is only one of many free kernels.

Software patents threaten all software freedom and the Linux Foundation will learn this at great and immediate cost. ACTA, if it’s as bad as people fear, will allow the people who stole the first generation of free software to steal everything in the GNU/Linux world. The software will live on, in the stale and sad kind of condition that BSD lives in Windows, but the Linux Foundation and most of the wonderful companies using free software will be eliminated. People who ignore threats to their freedom for some small advantage now will learn the price of slavery later.

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