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Jon Portnoy wrote: |
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>>I suppose I am dismayed that we are failing to promote free software |
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>>over proprietary software. |
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> We are promoting giving users a choice. What we are failing at is trying |
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> to force them into using free software. |
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> Quick poll of people reading this thread: Would you like to see the |
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> removal of nonfree software from the tree? That means things like |
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> vmware, the java packages, etc. |
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> Or perhaps someone should start a poll in the forums in Gentoo Chat |
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> about it. |
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Much as I'm an advocate of free, open software - I'm also an advocate of |
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choice. I'm also practical; I firmly believe in using the tool that does |
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the job. There are just some applications where free/open software |
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hasn't matured enough to be used in, eg, enterprise or even small |
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business (or, for that matter, on the desktop). |
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I'd rather be able to use the proprietary software until the f/o stuff |
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is mature enough for me to take the leap. Not everybody has the time to |
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debug all of their software packages for several weeks before they can |
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get full use out of it. |
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</ramble> |
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:P |
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Stewart Honsberger |
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