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Letter to "The [Gilroy] Dispatch" Editor

There is an alternative to BART and strongarm tactics of Ron Gonzales

Public perception quite correctly characterizes Ron Gonzales' tactics in favor of BART as "strong-arm".

// posted by Penguiniator @ 11:29 AM

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...refers to four kinds of freedom for the users of the software:

The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

A program is free software if users have all of these freedoms.

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On Michael Dell contending there are too many Linux's:

There's too much choice of beer too. There needs to only be a couple of brands of beer available when I go to the store -- too confusing for the big store chains to sell so many different varieties.

I think they should stick to Fosters -- even here in the US. Easy to remember, easy to stock. It would eliminate a bunch of shelf-space that the store could devote to more important things, like snack-crackers and cheese-spread.

Of course, there's too many varieties of those too...

--Response to Michael Dell's public remarks about the number of Linux distributions available From Lxer.com