> Many 3rd party free software applications push the burden of integration > with the distro to the distro - for 3rd party closed source > applications, the integration burden is typically on the software producer.
If they rely on distributions to, well, distribute them, they aren't 3rd party anymore. > At OpenWengo, we have a youngish application which has not yet been > included in distributions, so we're in the unenviable position that most > commercial software companies find themselves Right, exactly. There's tons of open source stuff out there that isn't included in distributions for various random reasons. So it becomes 3rd party, like commercial apps. I think one of the more harmful arguments that has floated around the Linux world is the idea that if you distribute outside the distros you must be proprietary and therefore somehow less important. The relationship between proprietary and importance is a matter of beliefs. The relationship between 3rd party and proprietary is just not accurate. -mike _______________________________________________ Desktop_architects mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop_architects
