On Sun, 7 May 2000, Moshe Zadka wrote:
> On Sun, 7 May 2000, Shlomi Fish wrote:
>
> > commercial and closed-source products under the software directory. IMO,
> > it should because:
> > 1. We are the Israli Group of Linux Users (IGLU) not the Israeli Group of
> > Open-Source Devotees (IGOSD).
>
> No, we are the Israely GNU/Linux Users. We believe in free software.
> Companies which sell non-free products can damn well pay for the promotion
> out of the ransom they extract from helpless users -- I see no reason to
> help them.
>
As far as I can see, we believe in free software but we don't necessarily
believe that commercial software does not have a right to exist. I am an
Objectitivist and as such am very much pro-Capitalistic. Thus, I don't see
commercial software as evil, etc.
I don't see users of commercial software as helpless, or vendors of
commercial software as villains. This entire attitude is wrong. No-one is
forcing anybody to buy a commercial program, so the commercial vendors are
not villains, but _suppliers_. They supply a service, for money. We supply
it for free, but that does not mean it is illigitimate to supply it for
money.
Note that I do not favour such laws as the UCITA or the DMCA.
In any case, I am now more convinced that we should publicize _some_
important commercial software (Oracle, Informix, Netscape Server, etc.)
Naturally, not all of it, simply because not all of the free software that
appears in Freshmeat or in SourceForge appears at the links manager.
Just my 20 agoroth.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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>
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