OfB.biz: Free Software Does Matter
Sep 18, 2002, 01:00 (2 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Eduardo Sánchez G.)
[ Thanks to Timothy R. Butler for this
link. ]
"Tim here has a point, and an important one. When one has to
face questions of life and death, and seek what is really important
and transcendental; in short, when one has to make out the real
worth of one's life, most of the questions debated by the OfB.biz
or GNU/Linux communities seem absurdly petty and bizantine beyond
redemption. However, not everything is as it seems. Right, a lot of
our pursuits fade in comparison to what was reminded to us on last
year's September 11. What can be so important as to take a place
among the sorrow of lost lives, the awe for the grace and peace
amidst the tears, the outrage and the cry for justice of the
victims, and the unbelievable heroism of both public servants and
private citizens?
"As petty and irrelevant as they might seem, the questions
mentioned by Tim, I contend, are yet important. Even, I mean, very
important. Whether GNOME or KDE is better--well, you know, of
course KDE is better ;)--or whether Rik van Riel's or Andrea
Arcangeli's 2.4 VM is the best one, or whether Linus Torvalds was
right in using BitKeeper as a developing tool for Linux, all these
are important questions because their importance is derived from
the milieu in which they were asked..."
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