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"Bob Young" <BYoung@××××××××××.com> posted |
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FAEEIJPAOFEMBBLKPMJEMEHFHKAA.BYoung@××××××××××.com, excerpted below, on |
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Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:43:12 -0700: |
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>> > I fail to see that it really makes much of a difference whether Jane |
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>> > Avgusr is dependent on a Linux kernel developer or on an engineer |
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>> > working at nVidia. |
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>> Because *no one* is dependent on the linux kernel developers. You can |
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>> make the needed changes. If you don't have the ability to, |
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> As is the case for 99.99 percent of the population. |
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That may be, but 99.99 percent of the population isn't me. (FWIW |
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that's something I'm sure both they and I am very glad about! Can you |
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imagine billions of Duncans around? <shudder> =8^) |
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As I said in a different reply, "slaveryware" vs. "freedomware" is simply |
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the point in my experience I've come to. I don't expect others to have |
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come to the same point, or necessarily find my terms represent their |
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experience. All I'm doing is fairly representing my own experience, |
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calling things exactly as I see them, unvarnished with "political |
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correctness". |
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>> Someone *has* to pay for the cost of maintaining and improving software. |
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>> That's economic fact. NVidia says you have to pay *them* to improve |
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>> their software. Linux kernel developers says you can pay *anyone with |
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>> the skills* (or use your own time) to improve the software. Clearly, |
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>> you have more options (and are thus more free) with free software. |
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> If I'm not doing it myself, I see little difference whether I pay one |
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> entity, or pay another. |
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It's a bit of a side point compared to the above, but if you don't see a |
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difference between having to pay one entity and being able to make a |
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choice between thousands or millions of such entities, I can only hope |
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that all your aches and pains can ever be cured by your choice of |
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acetaminophen, aspirin, etc one can buy at the local drug, grocer, or |
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convenience store, or even simply by taking it easy a few hours, and that |
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you never face the hard choice of paying for a single supplier patented |
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new drug to save your life or that of a loved one, or buying food and/or |
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paying rent. The fact of the matter is, many suppliers gives you vastly |
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more freedom/flexibility than a single supplier, and with that |
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freedom/flexibility not coincidentally comes a rather drastic drop in |
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cost, yet the suppliers still seem to stay n business. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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