On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 07:40:49PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > Andrew Suffield wrote: > > > > >hardware manufacturers (in the last instance) only. Do you think that > > > > >they produce everything built in their devices? > > > > > > > > Do you really think that hardware manufacturers don't decide what to > > > > build into their devices? > > > > > > Of course they do, but they have different primary goals, eg. produce > > > the hardware product in this century, make it good enough to sell enough > > > of it. Or do you prefer hardware that is 10 times slower or incompatible > > > to what 95% of the market uses, beeing 200% more expensive? > > > > Ah, the old argument that says free software can never possibly work > > or compete with commercial software. > > fwiw: free software and commercial software don't exclude each other. > Guess you are referring to proprietary software instead.
No, it's not *my* argument. I always thought it was a rather silly argument. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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