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    SubjectRe: GNU/Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario
    Richard M. Stallman wrote:

    > > No proprietary software here, excluding things such as firmware/BIOS where
    > > there is no choice.
    >
    > Why 'excluding'? You can't deny you are using proprietary software.
    > Neither do us.
    >
    >The FSF chose, for its newest server, a machine that supports a
    >free BIOS. You can make such choices too.
    >
    >We are also trying to help the work to support free BIOS on a laptop
    >so that my next laptop can run a free BIOS. There are surely ways you
    >can help, too, if you want to be constructive.
    >
    >
    "constructive" is a for profit model that sustains the hi tech
    industry. The current
    models have created a conduit for socialist disintegration of the
    american hi tech
    markets, loss of jobs, and have funnelled technology out of the
    country. Legal
    defense funds should be the biggest red flags of all. If this system
    you devised really
    works, why all the litigation? Why all the need for legal defense funds
    and patent
    infringement insurance? I've watched the entire market slowly collapse
    over the years
    as the result of the affect of the GPL on America's hi tech markets.

    It isn't working, and it isn't sustainable. non-profit and "temples" of
    GPL "religion"
    have evolved, with the leaders living in orgnaizations that subsist from
    handouts and
    donations. This movement has spawned a global attitude that has no
    respect
    for IP rights, and it's extended itself to no respect for human rights,
    or any other rights
    of the indivdual. That's the legacy this has left and the ultimate
    conclusion.

    My 2 cents.

    J
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