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Open source is about controlling our destiny
A lot of people have pointed out pro open source remarks by the president of India. Dana Blankenhorn restated some of the key points like this:
In other words it is Microsoft, not Linux, which is dangerous to India, because Microsoft can change its mind while India can control whatever it does with Linux.
Open source is not only about the economic aspects, its about the control aspects. Customers of software are at the mercy of vendors of software. As I mentioned a few days ago, I want software vendors to be able to earn a good living (especially since I'm one of them). But I don't want to be at their mercy.

Dana then goes on to sound the horn of doom:

While China may take America's hardware business away, India seems poised to take away our software business. And where would our New World Order be then?
It's not that simple. There are plenty of us here in America who are working in the open source world. We have just as much ability to control our destiny as India does, but we have to decide that we're going to do that.
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