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Higginbotham Ricky
Hi Ralph,
> From: Ralph Mackiewicz
>
> > And the same politics stopped the NSA's work on Linux, guess who was
> > complaining? It's the best certification money can buy!
> Just one more
> > exclusionary tactic.
>
> I'm fairly confident that anybody on this list that would actually
> describe publicly what the NSA is doing doesn't know what the NSA is
> doing. They could have a 1000 people working on Linux and outside of
> those 1000 people nobody is likely to know. And that is how it should
> be. There may have been some public declarations but I, for one,
> wouldn't believe anything that is publicly stated about what
> the NSA is
> or isn't doing.
>
> Ironically, if the government would have simply avoided filing its
> politically motivated anti-trust suit against MS in the first
> place they
> would have remained naive as to the ways of Washington and it
> would have
> been a whole lot easier for the feds to migrate to Linux.
> Ever since the
> government went after MS they are now more active in the
> lobbying arena
> then ever. It will be more difficult for the
I think its a fallacy to assume that government intervention is always bad for the market place (nor always good). Businesses and "Business people" will push the limits of legality and prudent judgement if left unchecked (witness Enron, etc.). Not all of them, but enough of them to be a detriment to society. Goverment may be a chainsaw instead of a surgical blade, but sometimes its better to just amputate the limb.
> goverment to do anything to change their usage of MS products now
> with that $39 Billion in cash greasing the greedy palms of the US
> Congress. It is sad that politics today is really dysfunctional. It
> should be obvious to everyone by now that Linux is a signficant
> factor in the market and that its usage and influence will continue to
> grow over time. The best thing that could happen to Linux is for the
> government to stay out of it. The political situation will only allow
> the government to do something after the rest of us have
> embraced it for the right business reasons instead of for political
> reasons.
Unfortunately, politics is already a tool being used by "the other side". From Miscrosoft to the RIAA. Its critically important that the OSS embraces that (political involvement) as the future. It doesn't do you any good to be great at writing *illegal* software.
Regards,
Richard Higginbotham
> Regards,
> Ralph Mackiewicz
> SISCO, Inc.
> From: Ralph Mackiewicz
>
> > And the same politics stopped the NSA's work on Linux, guess who was
> > complaining? It's the best certification money can buy!
> Just one more
> > exclusionary tactic.
>
> I'm fairly confident that anybody on this list that would actually
> describe publicly what the NSA is doing doesn't know what the NSA is
> doing. They could have a 1000 people working on Linux and outside of
> those 1000 people nobody is likely to know. And that is how it should
> be. There may have been some public declarations but I, for one,
> wouldn't believe anything that is publicly stated about what
> the NSA is
> or isn't doing.
>
> Ironically, if the government would have simply avoided filing its
> politically motivated anti-trust suit against MS in the first
> place they
> would have remained naive as to the ways of Washington and it
> would have
> been a whole lot easier for the feds to migrate to Linux.
> Ever since the
> government went after MS they are now more active in the
> lobbying arena
> then ever. It will be more difficult for the
I think its a fallacy to assume that government intervention is always bad for the market place (nor always good). Businesses and "Business people" will push the limits of legality and prudent judgement if left unchecked (witness Enron, etc.). Not all of them, but enough of them to be a detriment to society. Goverment may be a chainsaw instead of a surgical blade, but sometimes its better to just amputate the limb.
> goverment to do anything to change their usage of MS products now
> with that $39 Billion in cash greasing the greedy palms of the US
> Congress. It is sad that politics today is really dysfunctional. It
> should be obvious to everyone by now that Linux is a signficant
> factor in the market and that its usage and influence will continue to
> grow over time. The best thing that could happen to Linux is for the
> government to stay out of it. The political situation will only allow
> the government to do something after the rest of us have
> embraced it for the right business reasons instead of for political
> reasons.
Unfortunately, politics is already a tool being used by "the other side". From Miscrosoft to the RIAA. Its critically important that the OSS embraces that (political involvement) as the future. It doesn't do you any good to be great at writing *illegal* software.
Regards,
Richard Higginbotham
> Regards,
> Ralph Mackiewicz
> SISCO, Inc.