On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Praveen A <[email protected]> wrote: > > 2010/9/20 Siju George <[email protected]>: > > for spin doctors ofcourse :-) > > I don't want to get into an argument! > > Emacs is there on windows so why change to FOSS OS huh? > > They get to learn about Free Software even when on Windows, so it > might motivate them to move fully, and given them confidence and > comfort that they are already familiar with emacs (Open Office, > Firefox, Pidgin to extend it). > > But when we already chose a Free Os, and there is proprietary > software, what message does that send? What does it encourage? >
It encourages them not to go back to windows just because of a stupid hardware they happened to get. And to patiently wait till some one to reverse engineer as was done by many real developers who chose to code and not to play politics. May be before you throw your mud firmware you must read this. :-) http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=121452549117639&w=2 and find out how much the BSD community has worked for opening up documentation for these closed hardwares which helps these so called "holier than thou" FSF linux pet distros to run on the hardware they run on decently. With out some of the efforts of the BSD community and debian community none of these FSF pet distros wiould be running fine on a decent hardware! Stop pilotics with petty excuses and give credit to the stuff enjoyed by you because of those who worked for it. The works of the guys whom you throw mud at are the very basis of your using the FSF pet distros. Think about any Unix without OpenSSH from OpenBSD! --Siju _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
