So, is open source anti-American?
Whitehurst admitted that open source advocates in the developing world benefit from an anti-American, and anti-Western bias where it exists.
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Whitehurst admitted that open source advocates in the developing world benefit from an anti-American, and anti-Western bias where it exists.
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bogdanbiv
16 years 33 weeks 5 days 15 hours ago
With U.S., or against us
Free software gives equal chances to everyone to prove themselves. Puts non-us residents on an equal relationship with others.
It can stop the economic dominance of US over the other countries. If one can say that "being neutral" is "being against", then yes free software is anti US, anti-western countries.
kiba
16 years 33 weeks 2 days 7 hours ago
Why would there be
Why would there be "anti-US"? The free software movement begun in the US, at one of the best US institution we ever have, the US University system. You know, the institution that foreigners come in drove for to apply for a PhD.
How can it be anti-western?
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aboutblank
16 years 33 weeks 14 hours 58 min ago
The article says open source
The article says open source is anti-american as open source developers "use it as a way to avoid intellectual property taxes". Intellectual property can be argued to be an American (a western country) invention and so, it can be argued that open source goes against this set of ideals.