Dear Mr.Nocera and Mr.Stallman, as GNOME and FLOSS fan I would like say something about this:
RMS: >> Many people have already chosen free software precisely for the sake >> of freedom. So have some national and regional governments. BN: >They chose it first because it matches their requirements, then because > it was libre software. Or because it matched their requirements close > enough that they'd be able to modify it for those. Pretty *all* marketing reaserches show that companies choose FLOSS because this reasons: * to escape from vendor lock-in * to have the possibility to adapt software to their needs * in general: "flexibility" These are freedom-related reasons, I think. Despite the fact that they call FS only as "open source", companies are searching for freedom. Price is often the third or forth reason for importance. Additionally, security is often a primary goal, but we need to remember that security in FS is often a side-effect of the fact that it is free-as-in-freedom. In facts, other Unix like system (i.e. Mac OS X) are not secure like GNU/Linux as many hacker contest have demostrate. Many other pratical advangates of FLOSS are side-effects of freedom. In other words, "freedom is a feature" Thank you for attention. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
