[ale] [Kinda OT] The "TalkMaster", Freedom and Free Software -- [JOBS/OT]

[Jim Kinney]

I was at Cox with their cable group and most of the stuff was Linux as well.
Full support licenses with RHEL systems and full 24x7 4 hour replacement
part support from IBM for the all-IBM hardware. Ditto on the Cisco switch
gear.

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Derek Carter <goozbach at friocorte.com>wrote:

> On 1/30/12 1:53 PM, mike at trausch.us wrote:
> > I don’t know how many of you actually spend (waste?) time listening to
> > talk radio, but I do on occasion.  One of the things I spend (again,
> > waste?) my time listening to in the car or when I think to fire up the
> > stream on my computer is Neal Boortz.
> >
> > Now, he seems to take the position that freedom is paramount and that we
> > should all exercise it.  He constantly complains, for example, about
> > “government schools” and how they do not really provide an education,
> > much less equip our young to exercise their freedom.
> >
> > However, he seems to spend an awful lot of time pushing products for
> > Windows in the spots on his show.  I have never even once heard him or
> > any of his sheep call in and mention that there is free software which
> > enables people to exercise their fundamental freedoms with regard to
> > their computing platforms.  In fact, it seems that his platform is
> > nothing more than a façade, where he is quite happy to push things that
> > cause people to become less free as a result of the use of the things
> > that he pushes.
> >
> > I find myself wondering:  Is this because he doesn’t know about it?  Or
> > is he insincere?
> >
> >       --- Mike
>
> Alls I know is that his site runs on Linux(CentOS) and Python(django).
>
> And if you want to help keep sites like that running Cox Media Group
> Digital is hiring:
>
>
> http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/16196/manager-systems-engineering-cox-media-group-digital?campaign=31
>
> They're a great group to work with/for. I know, it used to be my job.
> --
> Derek
> aka goozbach
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James P. Kinney III

As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
- *2011 Noam Chomsky

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