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the pointthe pointPosted Apr 14, 2006 11:50 UTC (Fri) by coriordan (guest, #7544)In reply to: the point by proski Parent article: First "Firefox Flicks" released
> that Microsoft loses its monopoly
Is it really true that you just don't want MS to have a monopoly? Would you be happy if RealNetworks took over as the Monopoly holder?
Or is it that you don't like society's technical direction to be dictated by a company and you would prefer that it was directed by the software users?
If the latter, then the only sustainable solution I see is to ensure that all software users are not fettered in ways that prevent this. The end goal is for software users to have a minimum standard of rights, like the free labour movement got for workers. Today, software users can take these rights, by using free software.
Maybe this is the gap that the free software movement has to bridge: the gap between "I just want this one problem fixed", and "I use free software the proprietary approach leads to a whole nest of problems".
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