Thomas Shaddack wrote on April 13, 2003 at 22:45:33 +0200:
But demanding that they be "communal property" sounds like the sort of socialism that can only be imposed by authority and fails when it is imposed.
Interfaces, APIs, and standards are WAY too important to be let exclusively in the hands of the manufacturers. Besides, there is no point in proprietariness of technology as if the vendors want to keep exclusivity for manufacturing of their designs, they already have the infrastructure of (*spit*) patents.
I am pretty militant in this issue. No compromises.
If I want to keep secret the details of something I make, it is my right to do so. Don't like it? Don't fucking buy it. (Snipped)
4) Extend Assassination Politics to high managers. Everyone who peddles proprietary technology and refuses to open their documentation should be killed in a long and painful way. They should pay for the frustration they inflict onto the field technicians.
Any communist maggots that murder, or attempt to murder people for merely keeping secret the details of the stuff they make and sell should be bound, gagged, tortured, then taken out back to have their skulls crushed with a sledgehammer until their brains start oozing out their ears. -- Tom Veil