On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 10:58 +0100, CiarĂ¡n O'Riordan wrote:
Possible connection, FWIW:
Bruce Perens also opposes pro-fs government policies: http://lwn.net/Articles/163077/ "I still think that preference laws are the wrong way to go. [...] I keep thinking that the end still doesn't justify the means."
This isn't a hugely uncommon point of view, though - I think you're possibly making a link too far.
Personally, I'm pretty much against them: you can't argue coherently and simultaneously against the preference given to other platforms and for a preference given to free software*; the basic principle is the same and people will smell hypocrisy.
Cheers
Alex.
*. People love to fall back on "oh, free software is different because it's ethical and stuff", but it's a poor argument. For some, the ethics of public spending is you do as little as possible and get best value possible: reducing it to an "ethical" argument fails because not everyone's ethics are the same.
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