> And note that I said "Fanaticism ... puts off more people than it > encourages". Most companies probably can live with the GPL, but the > sort of fanaticism which says "if you don't do everything our way you > are One Of Them and not One Of Us" will put them right off.
We have to get people from A to B and for some the gap is currently too big. Eat the elephant a bite at a time. If you can get by with 100% FLOSS fine, but understand that some other people probably can't for practical reasons. I'm 100% behind a shift to FLOSS but in the business I'm in, it's not realistic to say I will never ever use stuff that isn't FLOSS. Better that I provide strategies for people to make the transition rather than veto any contact with anyone that is still using proprietary licensed stuff. So Chris, I agree with you but I would use the term idealism rather than fanaticism. Machiavelli did have some good points ;-) -- Ian Lynch www.theINGOTs.org www.opendocumentfellowship.org www.schoolforge.org.uk _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
