22 Jun
2003
22 Jun
'03
10:46 a.m.
> Now if you allow your Open Source Applications to
be ported to
this
> proprietary OSes, you strengthen this behaviour
and weaken the
Open
> Source Movement. People will get your software
but will stick with
OSX
> or whatever cause of this called Killerapps.
Systems.
Just to add a bit onto this issue is that we could still support
non-opensource systems, but they would need to purchase the software
(see my other e-mail with the Trolltech as an example).
Please, you guys sound like a government that wants to regulate
everything with laws and taxes. If we (the open source movement) let
our "enemies" (closed-source businesses) make us behave like them, we
have lost. A more creative approach would be to make a good OSX
emulator (inverse Darwin) which lets those people run their killer
apps under Linux.
And by the way, isn't someone who uses and contributes to open-source
apps under OSX/Solaris/etc still a part of the open source movement?