@Bernard, thanks for the reminder of the old thread. Looking back, I should have gone more deeper into the commerce and business aspect that Open Source represents, and I now realize that had I been a strong supporter of the unix kernel, I woud have been a very strong advocate for the Free Software Foundation and not Open Source.

 

Open Source bottomline is a business as much as proprietary, thus it must stop pretending to be what it is. It all ties up now. Is proprietary software really the evil that they market it as? I hardly think so. I think it is time it should face the full competitive sword of the propreitary software industry, no holds barred. Unfortunately am no big propreitary developer nor have the financial capacity to do so, I would start this war. So in the meantime, I'm going to become a propreitary software advocate activist....  :-))

 

Have a nice wekend.

 

Rgds.