Re: [tlug] Poll: OpenOffice or LibreOffice?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Bruno Raoult writes:

 > Being "libre" or "gratuit" does not mean in any way "anti-market,
 > or anti-capitalist".  They are not linked to a politic opinion.

Unfortunately, that's not true.  They very much *are* linked to
"political" opinions because of RMS and Microsoft respectively.

It is surely possible to use "libre" (free as in speech) as a
technical term; Russ Nelson does so.  But when RMS uses "free" or
"libre", there's a whole pile of anti-capitalist baggage that comes
along with it (although he denies it).  And when Microsoft says "free"
(free as in beer, "gratuit" in French), you call your children indoors
and then the police hotline to tell them there's a pusher in the
neighborhood.  "He who dies with the most toys wins" capitalism at its
best[sic].

:-)

Very-much-political-myself-ly y'rs,
Steve