On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On 17 Jul 2003, William Suetholz wrote: > > If I sound like the devil's advocate, I assure you I'm not. I'm > just tired of hearing random people bitch and beak off about this > type of crap who don't put any sort of thought whatsoever into > the business, legal, copyright/trademark/patent, or engineering > costs and other factors that affect these types of decisions in > companies out there. Try to look at things from the angle of the > given company out there for once.
I appreciate all the work various folks have done to move Linux along. I have used Linux since about kernel 0.99. Now for me at least Linux has become my daily OS. (I used to use OS/2 daily and Linux as my secondary OS.) Many Thanks to All! I also understand the capitalist elements you detail. I am not a hard core (meaning religious or fanatical) open source advocate. Open source just makes good sense. I could go into the various reasons why, but I won't and it's probably obvious to anyone on this list anyway. I wish some sort of compromise could be reached where the proprietary never-to-be-open-sourced bits could be made to coexist with the open bits in a timely manner. What I mean is that I don't like waiting for months and months for various hardware and features to be supported by Linux. I don't mean just with Xfree, but with other parts of Linux as well, like media players and so forth. (My goal is never to have to boot Windows for anything.) I don't know what a workable solution from a technology aspect would be. Perhaps some consistent pluggable module API or library scheme? Fred Error Loading Explorer.exe You must reinstall Windows. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
