Galen Boyer wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jul 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Our message is that non-free software is unjust and illegitimate. > > Hi Richard, > > I'm an Oracle professional. I don't see any free software close to as > good as their database software. Its a fairly easy argument to make > that if all software were free, Oracle wouldn't be in business, > therefore nobody would be able to use a database as good as Oracle's is > today.
actually, there are two non-sequiturs in your reasoning here. there are businesses making money with free and/or open source software, so there is no a priori reason to assume oracle wouldn't be in business if all software were free. and even if that did happen, it still does not follow that no-one would be able to use a database as good as oracle's: there is no a priori reason to assume that in a world where all software is free, there couldn't be a high-quality database. -- Joost Kremers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht EN:SiS(9) _______________________________________________ gnu-emacs-sources mailing list gnu-emacs-sources@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-emacs-sources
