Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 23:42:25 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: fpawlak@execpc.com (Frank Pawlak) Cc: toor@dyson.iquest.net, jkh@time.cdrom.com, dshanes@personalogic.com, brett@lariat.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re[2]: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" Message-ID: <199804100442.XAA03386@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <980409231705.ZM267@execpc.com> from Frank Pawlak at "Apr 9, 98 11:17:05 pm"
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> On Apr 9, 10:03pm, John S. Dyson wrote: > > > > > Each of 'em seems like a Borg nano-probe :-). (Re: StarTrek Voyager :-)). > > > > John > >-- End of excerpt from John S. Dyson > > I'll have to have my wife give me a translation of this. She is the StarTrek > person in the family. I barely know what a Borg is let alone a nano-probe. > Regards, > Frank > They are little cyborg entities flowing around in Borg bloodstreams used to affect the assimilation process among other things. I am attributing the typical individual zealot as being about as important as one of the nano-probes (to the larger collective -- and will be sacrificed if it is valuable to the collective), all together they have a significant effect. This is an assimilation process, where it is a war between the Linux world and the rest of software. It just seems that Microsoft is the big target, but don't be tricked into thinking that war is "freedom" vs. "domination." Linux and Microsoft are various forms of domination at war. Microsoft wants to have all your money, while the GPL movement wants to socialize inventiveness. The GPL is not Netscape's friend. Their upper mgmt doesn't appear to realize it. We need to continue growing the free software movement (and the associated freedom of individuals), and not be left out in the cold. The Linux thing is NOT a free software movement, but is an evangelistic pseudo-religion. It wouldn't suprise me that the same people who might be susceptible to a cult are the same people evangelizing whatever OS that they have adopted. No OS is immune to this, but Linux appears to have more than it's fair share. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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