ESR isn't a proponent of free software. He's a proponent of OSS. Will is a believer in the religion of RMS.
Me, personally, I prefer IMS, but that's the decades-old DEC vs IBM argument. On 9/24/07, Tim Fournet <tfournet at tfour.net> wrote: > > ESR also says it's wrong to try to force migration from proprietary > software with laws > > willhill wrote: > > There is no free software monoculture. Every distribution is different, > even > > if they come from the same upstream source and follow the same > reasonable > > standards. They all have differences in memory footprint that Microsoft > has > > to go to great lengths to duplicate. > > > > As ESR has pointed out, the sooner you move the more you save. > > > > On Monday 24 September 2007 12:58 am, -ray wrote: > > > >> Replace the windows monoculture with a linux monoculture? > >> These solutions cost billions. > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > General at brlug.net > > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.brlug.net/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20070924/a30320d3/attachment.html
