OS Weekly: Is Linux too entrenched in mainstream now that it is used in politics?" This totally brings up issues of virtual social capital and calls into question the process in which software becomes an institution in government as opposed to on the internet.
Want more than a two party system of governemnt? If code is the government, then Linux may be the answer, says Jack Wallen in an article for TechRepublic. He says that the linux distros are like political parties competing for users' attention. So does this imply that as in politics, power trumps all? Or does the power merely stem from expertise and is that antithetical to the previous implication or not?
Just some thoughts. My friend Rob, who may start contributing, informed me that it is often frustrating for the computer scientists who are not obsessively working on linux, to feel like the program changes serve their best intetrests.
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Yeah, what is this thing about always having to download new things that have obsolescence built into them?
I like this poem esp. the lines
a guarantor of obsolescence
keeping our hands busy
forever downloading new shit
at the expense that
our previous shit is
NOT ENOUGH
Anne E.
COOL BLOG !!!
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