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Re: 1 year release good enough.



On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:35:51 +0530, "dE ." <de.techno@gmail.com> wrote:
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> GNU is a wildebeest which's vulnerable to Lions (MS), and sometimes 
> leopards (Apple), and Debian is one of the wildebeests.

Vulnerable, how?

Microsoft put quite some effort into trying to stamp out free software,
and that was Microsoft in its prime -- and they failed.

If MS are Lions, and Apple are leopards, then I'd say Free Software is
Fungus -- capable of taking their excrement and turning it into
something useful, while otherwise growing at it's own pace, largely
indifferent to the activities of the live-fast die-young corporations.

Admittedly, Microsoft are now trying to use the patent system as
fungicide, but I think the wider population are waking up to just how
toxic that stuff is for everyone, especially when misused.

Cheers, Phil.
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