[linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: Free Software vs. Open Source: Where do *you* stand?

[David Kastrup]

Jan Depner <eviltwin69 at cableone.net> writes:

> On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 00:43 +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Jan Depner <eviltwin69 at cableone.net> writes:
>> 
>> > On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 23:41 +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> If I want Excel running on GNU/Linux, I can just shoot myself.  I
>> >> am not paying for such crippled software.  If that means that I
>> >> have to do with less sophisticated free software, so be it.  It is
>> >> a price to pay, but at least it keeps me in control and power and
>> >> responsibility.
>> >> 
>> >
>> >      Survey says...  BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT!  Wrong.  You would buy
>> > Crossover Office and then install a perfectly legal, paid for copy
>> > of Micro$oft Orifice.  It runs fine on my system.
>> 
>> You'll be surprised to hear that I don't let my personal choices be
>> dictated by survey.
>> 
>
>     I don't understand your response.  I was reading your post as
> saying that Excel wouldn't run on Linux.  I was just pointing out
> that it does run on Linux just fine.  I may have been
> misinterpreting your post though.

Whether I pay for a proprietary operating system or a proprietary
operating system emulation is pretty much the same: I don't get native
Linux, including all widgetry, performance, interprogram communication
and so on.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum