[ale] Two awesome essays on open source and copyright

[Joseph A Knapka]

"Michael D. Hirsch" wrote:
> 
> There are two really spectacular essays I've just been made away of.
> The first was also on slashdot yesterday, so you may have heard of it
> already, but if not, check it out.  Apparently Peru is trying to pass
> a bill requiring all government software purchases be free software.
> The local MS rep wrote a letter expaining the errors in the bill and
> Dr. Edgar David Villanueva Nuñez, Congressman of the Republica of
> Perú, wrote back explaining in fine detail the error of his arguments.
> It is perhaps the finest reading of this sort I have ever read.  He
> maintained a polite veneer while totally destroying the MS arguments.
> A classic example of cutting someone down without ever uttering an
> objectionable sentence.
 
Omygod, that was *amazing*. Why can't we have congrescritters
like that?

On the other hand, the M$ rep seemed to be a bit of a dope.

-- Joe
    Any OS distinguishable from Windows is not sufficiently broken.

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