There have been a great many excellent points in this thread and for
some odd reason I feel the need to interject my .02.
I believe that many people have the ability to support multiple
'causes' (distros if that be the case). I also believe that there is
room in our 'club' for purists (Free and on
> You should get out more. I meet people every day who couldn't care
> less whether software is GNU GPL 2, LGPL, AGPL or whatever. The vast
> majority of people I meet want software that works. That's it. If it's
> free of cost that's a bonus.
I have to agree here. The actual license used really
Martin,
On 9 June 2010 18:16, Martin Owens wrote:
> Alan, I know you've been burned by the FSF and by other people who bang
> on about Free Software.
I have no issue with people who 'bang on' about free software, I do it
myself often enough. What I do have issue with is people thinking it's
the
On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 17:39 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> You should get out more. I meet people every day who couldn't care
> less whether software is GNU GPL 2, LGPL, AGPL or whatever. The vast
> majority of people I meet want software that works. That's it. If it's
> free of cost that's a bonus.
Al
; > gotten into the whole "it must be free/libre, open source" or it's
> > evil
> > thing. If Windows 95 had installed and run on that old PC I may never
> > have found linux.
> >
> > Does it work? For me that is it.
>
> I disagree with this
into the whole "it must be free/libre, open source" or it's
>> evil
>> thing. If Windows 95 had installed and run on that old PC I may never
>> have found linux.
>>
>> Does it work? For me that is it.
>
> I disagree with this sentiment so much, perh
's
> evil
> thing. If Windows 95 had installed and run on that old PC I may never
> have found linux.
>
> Does it work? For me that is it.
I disagree with this sentiment so much, perhaps this analogy can help
explain:
Free and Open Source is a tool that you buy, it'
