[linux-audio-dev] Re: linux-audio-dev digest, Vol 1 #519 - 10 msgs - Linux-audio-dev

22 Jun 2003

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  > Now if you allow your Open Source Applications to
be ported to this
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  > proprietary OSes, you strengthen this behaviour
and weaken the Open
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  > Source Movement. People will get your software
but will stick with OSX
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  > or whatever cause of this called Killerapps.
Systems.
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 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?