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Mark Knecht posted on Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:15:15 -0700 as excerpted: |
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> Now, lest it sound like I'm complaining, I'm really not. I'm just saying |
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> how I see the truth about this stuff. I prefer FLOSS when it does what I |
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> need, but being FLOSS it may or may not be up to the quality I can get |
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> from closed source support, especially in the area of hardware support. |
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Agreed with everything you said. Here, when FLOSS doesn't cut it for |
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particular hardware, it's as if that feature doesn't exist on that |
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hardware, since I don't consider non-FLOSS an option (now that I know the |
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difference, as I said, I didn't when I check Linux support for that last |
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nVidia card before I switched). But as I said, that's a personal |
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decision. Others have different priorities and different consciences, |
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and can consider the non-FLOSS option based on the the risks of when the |
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company will drop updates. |
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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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