Open source: Prepare for attack (ZDNet)

Posted Jun 4, 2004 7:11 UTC (Fri) by mmarq (guest, #2332)
In reply to: Open source: Prepare for attack (ZDNet) by verzonnen
Parent article: Open source: Prepare for attack (ZDNet)

Your sacrifice would have been in vain. The moment two or more arrests happens, without any counterclaim or prospect of legal fight,... like virus authors when they get caught,... i was sayng upon that momment the commercial part of the Linux/FOSS community will colapse, because entreprises will run for cover.

And to make things worst that civil disobidience will translate in an "underground" of only a small percentage of more or less tech savy users in passioned dedication to their cause and work. It will be impossible, IMO, to convert that way the huge mass of common users, that are now in a more or less "Confort Zone" with pirated windows, that no matter the BSODs is the only OS that can run all the hardware they trow in. And with no masses of users converted to the cause of this civil disobidience movement, not even in dreams will be possible the gaining of political power to the point of forcing goverments to change the law.

You will be left in prison, forgotten , and by the time Microsoft FUD machine finishes, Linux will be nothing more than a dark thing of wirdo pirates and hackers.

Open source: Prepare for attack (ZDNet)

Posted Jun 4, 2004 13:38 UTC (Fri) by verzonnen (guest, #9406) [Link]

I do not see it as a sacrifice, there is no cause that I am fighting for. I use linux because it suits my needs (and income) better! The problem is that it is seen as a strugle in the US against big evil corporations, I do not care if any company does, or does not want to use linux. The corporations do not care, they are interested in making money. Would you feel proud if an "enron" used your product?? The developers working for those companies will use (at least parts) open source regardles.

Sadly Linux needs these "big evil corporations" for now, because without a common enemy, the comunity will fall apart with internal squibeling. I have seen some maturity in the samba team in there statement regarding SCO's use of samba.

Linux wil not disapear in a hurry, there is to much momentum now and if the industry continues to use inferior systems that just garanties work for alot of MCSE'rs ;)