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Microsoft kills Hotmail HTTPS access in several countriesMicrosoft kills Hotmail HTTPS access in several countriesPosted Mar 27, 2011 14:39 UTC (Sun) by danielpf (subscriber, #4723)In reply to: Microsoft kills Hotmail HTTPS access in several countries by oblio Parent article: Microsoft kills Hotmail HTTPS access in several countries
"A negative goal is never a good way to live your life. It makes you bitter."
The FOSS movement can be compared to a liberation movement in an oppresive political regime. When people feel their freedom is too restricted some of the people have the need to do something against the oppressive regime. The goal here has nothing like a negative side, and doesn't make people bitter, on the contrary, they get thrilled by the higher value of their actions, and by the fact that they initiate a solution to their problem. As illustration consider the present events in the Arab world.
It's different from, say, the hate against a neighbor which would motivate a revenge. A revenge is rarely solving a problem, while a liberation does.
So your statement is probably too general.
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Microsoft kills Hotmail HTTPS access in several countries Posted Mar 27, 2011 15:38 UTC (Sun) by spaetz (subscriber, #32870) [Link]
> The FOSS movement can be compared to a liberation movement in an oppresive political regime.[...]
> So your statement is probably too general.
And your's is likely to bee too simplistic :-). FOSS is too many things to too many people (and firms), to be allow to describes in one simple sentence.
Microsoft kills Hotmail HTTPS access in several countries Posted Mar 27, 2011 16:21 UTC (Sun) by danielpf (subscriber, #4723) [Link]
It's why I used "compared" and not said it is equal.
Microsoft kills Hotmail HTTPS access in several countries Posted Mar 27, 2011 18:45 UTC (Sun) by elanthis (guest, #6227) [Link]
The problem with that line of reasoning is that the concepts and ideals of Free Software (and Open Source) existed long before proprietary software ever existed.
The formalization of the ideas behind FOSS arose in response to the change in the software world towards proprietary, closed products, yes. But FOSS was not a rebellion against those ideas so much as it was a continuation of the older ideas.
(And then there's people like me, who really don't care for Free Software much at all and vastly prefer permissive/liberal licenses, and who are more and more proponents of the Big Evil simply because they polish and improve products while many -- possibly most -- major Open Source projects seem hell bent on getting their crap 80% done, getting bored with bug fixing and polish, and then rewriting everything from scratch for fun while the users are sitting there with their thumbs up their butts wondering when they'll actually have a stable, bug-free, usable piece of software.)
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