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On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 08:42 am, stuporglue wrote: |
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> Why don't we have Flash and wireless drivers? Our market isn't big enough |
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> yet! Maybe Skype isn't the deciding factor for you to use linux on ppc (it |
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> isn't for me!), but for someone it may be. |
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I agree to a large extent with what Luca, Colin and Nick have already posted, |
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but I'll add to that: what is "our market" you're talking about? I don't |
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think the market you're in is the same as the one I'm in. |
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I'm in the Free Software market. I imagine many of the hobbyists you refered |
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to are in the same market. So are most of the people who use alternative |
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operating systems on alternative architectures, even if they don't realise |
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it. |
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I accept that if the Linux/PPC market was bigger, it might have a functional |
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Flash, Skype or Java Plugin. But "grow the market" is not the only answer to |
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these issues, and I don't think it is the correct one. If these apps were not |
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proprietry, the size of the market would not be relevant. I hope you can see |
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that "free the software" is a more elegant solution than "grow the market". |
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"Grow the market" is really just a workaround for the problem. In the long |
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term, you arrive back at the same problem. "Free the software" solves the |
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problem. |
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I have a lot to say about this issue, but I don't want to flood the list, so |
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I'll stop there for now. I appreciate that these kind of issues are hard to |
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convey to the people who ask you questions at your Linux Info Meetings. |
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cheers, |
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John |