On Tue, 2006-21-02 at 20:36 +0000, Chris Cannam wrote:
On Tuesday 21 Feb 2006 20:12, Dave Robillard wrote:
On Tue, 2006-21-02 at 15:05 +0000, Chris Cannam
wrote:
If my free software work puts a company or its
developers out of
work, then that's a problem for my conscience. It's not a victory
for free software.
Yes it is.
No, the fact of people having been put out of work is not itself a
victory for anyone.
Straw man. I never said it was an overall win, just a win for free
software. A proprietary program being replaced by a free one is
obviously a "win for free software".
(Whether it's a good thing overall is a different matter (of opinion))
-DR-