On 07/03/2010 11:45 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
nothing is black and white - take yahoo!, they contribute their satellite
images freely to openstreetmap, release a lot of the code they write into
open
source and happily patent a lot of software. There is an old english proverb
'he who lives in a glass house should undress in the dark'. If we apply the
principle of only black and white, very few if anyone on this list qualifies
to
be here. (certainly I do not). But let us be reasonable - there is a huge
amount of 'white' in IBM which is thus much higher on the side of the good
guys than microsoft. Of course Redhat is almost pure white on the scale.
let people who use fully free software on their mobiles, who do not touch
google apps, who only use non-patented hardware flame IBM. Let the rest of us
keep our peace.