On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:37:53PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:57:16PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 11:23:29AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > This seems like a pretty good example of how sometimes, distributing > > > non-free software ultimately benefits... no one except for non-free > > > software authors. > > > So, if I understand what you're saying, you believe having win98 available > > for anyone who wants to develop wine would tend to lock people into > > using the non-free versions of windows? > > I believe that having Win98 freely available for anyone who wants to use > it reduces the pool of people who want to *develop* Wine, because there > is non-free software satisfies their needs as they themselves presently > understand them.
BTW, if you go that way, notice that Wine is also evil, since it reduce the pool of people who want to *develop* free alternatives, because if the non-free windows binary-only crap runs well under wine, why use something else ? Still we distribute wine, and have no concience problems with it, do we ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
