On 2002.02.09 05:32 Plato wrote:
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 03:50:09AM -0500, David Elliott wrote:
On 2002.02.08 15:03 Brett Glass wrote:
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taxes: It will act in its own interest, not yours. The FSF's sole goal is to destroy commercial software developers, and
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Give me a break dude. Yes, the FSF wants all software to be free and wants to rid the world of commercial software altogether.
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I think it is worth pointing out the the Free Software Foundation does *not* want to rid the world of commercial software.
Stallman has, however, stated that he would like to rid the world of *proprietary* software.
Whoops, sorry, you are correct about that. However to the person I was replying to commercial==proprietary.
Red Hat Linux is a commercial product, but not proprietary (to give an example). Though I think Red Hat does have a few proprietary products they work on.
There is an incredibly important difference. Please do not use the terms interchangably. See
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Commercial http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/software-libre-commercial-viability.html
Been there long ago.. just kinda forgot.
-Dave