Re-imagining

[Ori Idan]

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Randall Ross <randall at executiv.es> wrote:

> On 13-04-09 07:56 AM, ubuntu-ca-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
> > From: Ralph Janke <txwikinger at ubuntu.ca>
> > To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> > Subject:
> > Message-ID: <20130408161733.GF7685 at jankeconsulting.ca>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 08:43:29AM -0700, Randall Ross wrote:
> >> > On 13-04-08 07:07 AM, Ralph Janke <txwikinger at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >>> > >
> >>> > > It would be very unfortunate to replace one Windows with another
> one. The idea
> >>> > > of the FLOSS movement is not to replace Microsoft with a more tame
> Open Source
> >>> > > version, which still eliminates choices for the user.
> >> > Let's not introduce this false dilemma. We are in no danger of an
> Ubuntu
> >> > monopoly.
> > It was never raised as a dilemma, it was raised as a metapher explaining
> the
> > purpose of Open Source.
> Ubuntu's purpose is to break the monopoly, and in the process to bring
> freedom to those who do not have it. I'm frankly not interested in the
> nebulous thing that some refer to as "open source" any more than I am
> interested in Colonels.
>

I think you mean you are not interested in Free Software.
Note the slight difference.
Free software deals more with the moral side and not with the practical
side.
Open source was termed by Eric Raymond that was interested more in
the practical side and not the moral, community side like Richard M.
Stallman (RMS).

I must say that I like this discussion, also since I have another
perspective, I am currently not in Canada, I am in Israel and active in the
open source community here, not necessarily the Ubuntu loco.
I am using Ubuntu since version 9.4 before that I used Debian and Red-Hat
or Mandrake (Mandriva today if it still exists)

-- 
Ori Idan
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