23 Aug
2005
23 Aug
'05
3:20 p.m.
On Monday 22 August 2005 02:03, Lee Revell wrote:
On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 23:15 +0200, Christoph Eckert
wrote:
I disagree strongly. I support Open and Free by using linux
since about 1996 or 7 and not using windows since 3 or 4 years
ago.
But it hasn't been free of headaches. And the kernel/bleeding
edge stuff .... I don't know how to describe what i'm feeling
And I'm pleased to see linux developed software breaking into
windows and mac land. Rather than hurting the Free and Open
community, I think it may help it. I've never used a mac; lot's
of my musician friends do. But if the day were to come that
I could get "mac os" and KDE, and Audacity, ..., I certainly
would consider installing it and using it along with linux.
In short, I think the Free and Open community extends beyond
a single os.
Marv
But it excludes free audio software on other
operating
systems. Many tools are also available for Mac OS or even
Windows.
Porting free software to non free OSes is terribly
shortsighted and hurts the entire free software community. We
should not encourage it.
Lee