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| henke54 Jun 16, 2011 9:32 AM EDT |
RMS wrote:Sometimes people will find it suits their motives better to do things that work against our freedom. Linus Torvalds originally developed Linux as proprietary software, in 1991. In 1992 he released it under the GNU GPL, and thus, combining Linux with the GNU system became possible as a way of making a completely free operating system.http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f... Glyn Moody wrote:Similarly, many of its more recent software projects aimed at replacing key software that is not free – things like Skype – are a useful reminder that it's not possible to interact with the rest of the world using entirely free software. So in that sense, the GNU project is still incomplete, and the FSF serves a useful purpose in pursuing these wider goals.http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f... |
| flufferbeer Jun 16, 2011 11:37 AM EDT |
@henke54, What's the main point of your pair of quotes (for someone as admittedly dense as me who just doesn't get it)?? Is it that mixed source is sometimes/mostly non-evil, that using mixed source is inevitable, that using entirely free source (FSF-based) WILL eventually disappear, a combination of the above, ... etcetera?? Would you care to provide some non Window-Manager Enlightenment (:}) on all this? -fb |
| henke54 Jun 16, 2011 12:21 PM EDT |
@flufferbeer, If you look at this charts from Rob Weir i must say, i am 'inclined' to agree on his 'reasoning' with that : http://www.robweir.com/blog/2011/06/openoffice-libreoffice-a... ................. It's like in politics : there is a 'right wing, a 'left wing' and a 'big centrum', and that 'big centrum' doesn't 'do politics', but want 'things accomplished'... if you 'catch my drift' ? .... ;-) |
| flufferbeer Jun 16, 2011 1:44 PM EDT |
@henke54
You're still a bit vague on what your main point or points are.
OTOH, you might be hinting as does Rob Weir in the text and last chart in your link to his blog that Micro$uck$ may be forced to yield product market share to mixed source? |
| henke54 Jun 17, 2011 3:29 AM EDT |
@flufferbeer, I just mean here "While two dogs are fighting for a bone, a third runs away with it" : http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f... ;-) |
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