I'm probably the world's worst communicator because you're right at the
edge of getting the point and then it gets missed again. I think you're
outraged thinking that I'm saying the open source guys are all bad people
or whatever. I'm not trying to make a bad/good argument, I'm trying to
make a cause and effect argument.
Take everything that I said which is not an action on the part of the
corporations and just call it A. Ignore what A is or even if A exists
or is true, whatever. Concentrate on what I claim to be the reaction.
I tried to make the case that A is the cause, you got mad, the fact that
the reaction is the problem is lost in the anger.
Your post shows that you think that the reaction is bad and you even say
that the reaction is likely. You vigourously disagree with my conclusions
as to why the reaction is happening, I see that. OK, so let's try it
with a question rather than a statement: why are things like the DMCA and
DRM happening? It isn't the open source guys pushing those, obviously,
it's the corporations. So why are they doing it?
Your answer has to be interesting because it seems to me that they are
doing it to protect their products, their product is sometimes content,
sometimes programs, sometimes both. An answer which says that open source
is not part of the cause also says that open source is irrelevant.
You can't be both a force and not a force.
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