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Table of Contents: Re: <nettime> The braindead arrogance of Linux ed phillips <ed@cronos.net> Re: <nettime> The braindead arrogance of Linux Benjamin Geer <benjamin.geer@gmail.com> ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 20:01:59 -0700 From: ed phillips <ed@cronos.net> Subject: Re: <nettime> The braindead arrogance of Linux huh? Heiko, is this a poem? We aren't selling dubious essences necessarily. We are jumping into the Services world with all its travails; it is far less lucrative than working the ip game. It is "wealth killing" of a sorts, and has all the potlach rank and pride through consuming wealth, using wealth, giving it away. I remember good old RMS on a panel years ago, with skinny pre-billionare David Filo in his tshirt. I remember David Filo saying to the world in response to RMS's embrace of free as in idea saying "But we'll all endup as waiters." RMS: "That would be fabulous, that would mean that the software actually worked!." I live the life of a waiter? un garcon? a gay science? Just what is quasi-religious? If its zeal you want, there is plenty of that, and plenty of disillusionment, zeal's little sidekick. Everything comes as a "distro" these days, and net theorists and net filters might be looked at as distros. I got the latest Lovink "distro" update in the physical mail the other day and enjoyed it immensely, the principle of notworking, it could be dipped into and the various ideas are like separate programs, the conversations with other writers. up2date --dry-run lovink_not_working_v4_u2.txt you've been linuxfried. an arrogant smirk is curling at the edges of your mouth. "may i help you?" - -one spirit-dead keyboard challenged certainly arrogant Linux user. copyleft. commercial use encouraged! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 08:19:54 +0100 From: Benjamin Geer <benjamin.geer@gmail.com> Subject: Re: <nettime> The braindead arrogance of Linux On Apr 7, 2005 2:07 AM, Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106@uni-bonn.de> wrote: > Sometimes, I think Linuxers can be braindead stupid arrogant [...] > But SUN claims sdp for Staroffice! This is not a complaint about "Linuxers", whoever they are. It is a complaint about StarOffice. Incidentally, Sun is basically clueless about free software. But you should file a bug report anyway. At least the OpenOffice project *has* a public bug tracking system. (Try that with a Microsoft product.) Ben # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net