On 22/01/2008, Kevin Donnelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 21 January 2008 12:48, Andrew Savory wrote: > > Ah, but you're making assumptions on what I do. I do practise what I preach > > - I use the same software to host my sites as I encourage customers to use. > > I do not (and would not) preach to customers that they should switch to > > Linux desktops, OpenOffice, etc - except in a few very special cases - and > > so there's nothing hypocritical here. > > Ah, I understand now. You're a bit like an 18th-century liberal espousing > universal suffrage, but not for the lower classes, women or blacks.
A friend of mine sympathetic to softrware freedom movement but who lately pointedly says "open source" notes that Jefferson campaigned to abolish slavery while owning slaves, and he makes all the software he writes available as free software, but doesn't mind using proprietary software until it can conveniently be discarded. -- Regards, Dave _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
