[SGVLUG] OT: reminder for those who went to MS Heroes event togetSQL NOW

[John E. Kreznar]

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Charles N Wyble <charles at thewybles.com> writes:

> ... I'm simply saying that many (but certainly not all) people who
> discuss the open source vs proprietary software choices on the Linux
> lists in Southern California don't know all of the facts.

Doubtless true.  Nobody knows all the facts.

But one fact is clear: To give a person a tool on condition that she
not try to understand it (that would be reverse engineering!) is a
humiliation and an insult.  I would be embarrassed and ashamed to
admit to being party to any such thing.

There's also a moral issue.  Using proprietary software contributes to
a general dumbing-down of society, the sort of pandering to ignorance
that made Gates his billions.

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 John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com 9F1148454619A5F08550 705961A47CC541AFEF13
 To "reverse engineer" something is to come to comprehend it, so what a
EULA really does is to forbid comprehension.  For this they charge money?!

P.S.  Charles, allow me to congratulate and thank you for finally
beginning to heed your own May 24 admonition regarding netiquette.
You've reformed!  You're editing quoted material and replying in-line!
Would that more folks on this list did that!

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