[Consortium] [OT] to explain myself (and alternatives to bounties)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 sorry everyone for the OT which i started, but now i feel the need to clarify my position about my "heavy" issue, which is not personal against Mark or against Ubuntu, but it's just my way of life. :: begin of OT On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 05:50:34PM +0000, Daniel James wrote: i know Mako Hill personally since some years, he told me that Mark hosted 10 debian developers in his big villa with swimming pool, that's how Ubuntu started existing. i share my concerns about Canonical and Ubuntu directly with him and his replies convinced me that is not all bad in it, especially since there is a foundation behind, but still we're having one man show and is about the rich one in the whole project. So as i wrote above i don't have a specific problem with Mark, my position is more general: i fight private property and practice direct expropriation since years, i hardly trust money-rich people and i seek revolution and insurgency as a solution to such injustices. given the above, you can probably guess how i interpret economical differences among ethnical-classes in south-africa: they are a responsability in apartheid by itself. maybe blacks are not shot and beaten on the street anymore, but still they are the poors and pityful in their own land, as a result of past and present policies. for us western people it should be even more clear after what happened in New Orleans: apartheid still exists, it just evolved into "politically correct" practices to defend the private property of US and EU colonists, after they achieved their money and power with genocide and slavery of natives in various places of the world. then my position regarding mister Shuttleworth's philantropy is that devolving money in opensource to make your own brand of it is not a relevant "humanitarian" effort for someone living in such a context; plus i have strong doubts about the "single rich benefactor" way to sustain free software. :: end of OT. all the above is just IMHO and i don't mean to offend :: anyone, in case it happens please consider it accidental ;> my vision of it is more related to "self-sustained" communities. i explained myself in a roundtable held at piksel.no last year and Janet Casey wrote an interesting text about our discussion here: http://www.sustainablesource.net/?p=15 ciao - -- jaromil, dyne.org rasta coder, http://afrolinux.org