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Self-serving rhetoric: hyping a fallacious "benefit"

Self-serving rhetoric: hyping a fallacious "benefit"

Posted Jul 31, 2008 13:44 UTC (Thu) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767)
In reply to: Self-serving rhetoric: hyping a fallacious "benefit" by AnswerGuy
Parent article: Red Hat's new CEO aims Linux at the cloud (News.com)

More concisely: They are willing and able to do the actual work to get worthy features into
the kernel.


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Self-serving rhetoric: hyping a fallacious "benefit"

Posted Jul 31, 2008 16:54 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Hehe. 

Isn't this how it used to go? :

FOSSFAN: Open Source is good because you can fix the stuff yourself and improve it yourself.

BUSINESSPERSON: I can't program, I won't program, sooo.. that means pretty much ziltch to me.
I need to get work done. 

FOSSFAN: Errr. well. Yes. But you could always pay somebody else to do it.

BUSINESSPERSON: Well I pay for software already. But say I want to pay somebody to do it for
me, who would I pay?

FOSSFAN: Errr... 

REDHAT: Pay me!

FOSSFAN: Sellout!!

I kid!

:)

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