"Sam Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > rather than whinge about the licenses and turn away vendors who are trying > to be useful, why not solve the problem? and no, forcing hardware vendors to > provide open source code is not the answer - most will probably just > withdraw support, saving it for some other alternative, less picky operating > system (like windows).
This amounts to the statement that we should abandon our principles because other people will never change to recognize that our principles are good ones. In fact, other people can and do change!
