Comments on: The Kos of Open-Source Hypocrisy

By: TBlumer

TBlumer — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:34:23 +0000

We’re on 72+ hours. Stay tuned. There’s another person who is supposed to comment on this elsewhere. I thought he would have done something by now, and will check on it in a few hours.

By: Eric Kephas

Eric Kephas — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 07:13:45 +0000

I’m quite interested in seeing if that question mark ever goes away.

By: TBlumer

TBlumer — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 02:34:04 +0000

I’m with you mostly, and good links. Kos and Delay both think the other side is out to end America as they know it. And, since you sort of said it (I didn’t), maybe Kos thinks stopping the evil Delay & Co. is so important that he throws his open-source principles overboard so he can come up with the biggest, baddest blogging weapon around (cartoonish ha-ha-ha-ha-ha in background). And though I can’t name them, I don’t doubt that certain Republicans are harboring similar ideas in other arenas.

It would be nice to hear from Kos (not holding breath).

By: Chris Baker

Chris Baker — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 02:20:03 +0000

The first thing I thought when I read this was that I’m surprised that you can get away with that using GPL software. It does feel like a violation of the spirit if not the letter of the license.

I think it’s a fair cop. Funny that the whole dialog was brought about by the left goofing on right blogs not offering comments.

I personally think that we need to get over this. I call the dynamic the trap of the game… Stanley Greenberg from a US political perspective calls it The Two Americas. Our hatred for each other causes us to act in ways against our own interest.

With community everyone wins. With dialog everyone wins. The more people participating the better. That’s the whole spirit of the open source community. If you are afraid of that than it’s time to look into the mirror.

One of the things that I’d like to see is the formation of trust mechanisms that facilitate dialog but add to it the perspective of the person’s political philosophy. Trust is a relative term. You may love everything that comes out of Tom Delay’s mouth while to me it is all sewer filth. It’s all a matter of perspective. Kinda like adding a political dimension to the ranking of posts. That would foster dialog as it promotes perspective instead of the current good vs. evil approach.