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David Kastrup I'm confusing nothing, stupid dak. Man oh man. *DAK* Indus., retard dak. Can *you* grok the meaning of "software units" and "transferred 20,000 copies in...
David Kastrup ------ Adobe Sells its Software A number of courts have held that the sale of software is the...
I am not in the open source movement.
Uh, not at all. Free software came about as a consequence of the inability to work freely with software. Since free software was recreated from scratch, it started out by necessity technically inferior to proprietary software. If quality had been the main motivator, neither free software nor open software would ever have come into existence.
You can't use software before it is written.
Uh, sounds like your brain did just overheat a bit...
Oh, there is no such coffin. Eric Raymond already wants to have proprietary Codecs in his Linux, everybody and his mother shouts for binary drivers, Linus Torvalds thinks one should do nothing against DRM and "trusted computing" which wrench, like in the case of Playstations, the control from the user about what software he is allowed to create and run.
GNU-Linux did not just magically pop up out of nowhere. GNU was created and still is maintained by the people who care for the availability of free software, those people you rave against. The people who would rather code alternatives than sing the praises of proprietary drivers for the purported sake of "user friendliness" that is, like proprietary software always has been, a dead end: software doomed to bit rot, which you can either expensively replace at some point of time or, if you are unlucky, stop using altogether.
-- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum