On Thursday 05 September 2002 10:02, Joerg Schilling wrote: > From: Dan Hollis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >i agree with you, i really do wish joerg would just change the license > >to forbid use on GPL operating systems... it is quite an excellent idea! > > And this makes it perfetly obvious: Most people who claim that they are > pro GPL in _all_ cases do not have this opinion because they like to have > a 'better world' but rather because they like to have free of charge SW for > their own use :-( > > You definitely completely missunderstood the spirit of free software.
The issue, at least for me, is not "free" it's open source. It's software which can not be just pulled out from under me because the vendor or author has a brain fart and decides to drop my most useful feature, refuse to port it to what I need to run in the future, etc. I have had Microsoft, Veritas, Oracle and other vendors do this, and it isn't going to happen again. I would rather use a slightly lesser tool, which I can enhance, fix or modify myself, than some binary tool which I might have to drop after a huge investment (my time, not money) after I make it a part of my productive toolkit. So don't kid yourself that this is about money cost, it's all about control. I have it, I like it, I'm not about to give it up. -- E. Robert Bogusta It seemed like a good idea at the time -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
