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Re:Miguel de Icaza responds to latest RMS article by omouse on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @12:07PM (#864467)
That's the open source view. Practical, fun, and no attention paid to ethics.

And yet what do we see? Microsoft, Apple, etc. trying to dominate things. They don't want anyone to even think about ethics and freedom for users and developers.

Because of their actions I think it's even more important to take ethics and freedom into consideration.

It's like politics...the reason to pay attention is because everyone else is an asshole and will eventually try and screw you over in some way.

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Re:Miguel de Icaza responds to latest RMS article by davidw on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @04:02PM (#865068)
No one said anything about ignoring it completely. What I said is that I like how Linus approaches it. He spends his time making the world a better place by creating good open source software and helping others do so, as opposed to telling everyone else what to do.
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