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Originally Posted by m-reader
I couldn't read the CNN article (WebSense is on), but the discussion on Slashdot is robust as always  |
I love slashdot for that 'robust' discussion. You have mostly smart people on there so it's far better than a reddit or digg conversation would be.
As for Open Source encouraging piracy it is wrong on so many levels and just shows the writers have no knowledge of open source as a philosophy.
What they mean to say is: "Open source let people get stuff for free. We hate people getting stuff for free, so we'll blame it for encouraging that free stuff culture". In the philosophy of open source, Eric Raymond, Stallman and so on, they do not encourage piracy and are very strict about correctly licensing work. They don't like copyrighted material, but if it's copyrighted, these guys say 'pay for it'.