On Thursday 27 Nov 2008, Mani A wrote:
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Praveen A pravi.a@gmail.com wrote:
2008/11/26 Raj Mathur raju@linux-delhi.org:
Er, would you have some data to back up that statement? If you mean organised crime is technically advanced, sure, I have no quarrel with that.
I could have used 'Many' instead of 'Most'. But I meant to include entities like the 'US Government ' and their agencies in the term 'organized crime industry'.
Even better, let's include ``computer users'' in the term ``organised crime industry'' then the connection between proprietary software development companies and organised crime will be totally clear and unassailable! And since some terrorists are computer users too, we can now also state that the proprietary software companies foster, support and are heavily connected with terrorism.
OK, now let's find some way to blame those nasty software corporates for global hunger, holes in the ozone layer, the terrible water situation in Simla and Amitabh Bacchan's lack of acting talent. I have full faith in the ability of the linguists and logicians in this list to warp languages and concepts into any form required to prove their arguments.
There are plenty of known cases in proprietary software for elections, hedge funds and ... Desktops/servers : )
So... if Diebold had used GNU and Linux on their controversial ballot machines would we have been discussing the connection between organised crime and free software?
FWIW I still don't see any facts coming out, so I'm dismissing your statement about the connection between proprietary software and organised crime as pure, baseless FUD. End of posts on this thread from my side unless some reason comes into the picture.
Regards,
-- Raju