On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 16:05:39 -0800, Karen Hill wrote: > Tried running a modern game in Cedega and it worked. In Wine it seg > faulted. Cedega is a commercial closed source port of Wine. Wine is > free. > > Commercial for profit developers create software that works better in > Linux than unpaid developers. The only reason the Linux kernel is even > halfway decent for a _unix_ system is because of Redhat. Redhat > charges an arm + leg for their Distro to pay the top guys like Tom Lane > to work on Postgres and Alan Cox to work on Linux. > > Remember XEmacs VS Emacs? Stallman was almost crying because the > XEmacs team was backed by a commercial venture and the old emacs could > barely keep up. XEmacs cost about a million dollars to create. In > some of the mailing lists, stallman admitted that he couldn't even > understand some of the code because it was so advanced and he feared > emacs would fall really behind. > > Why try to fight this reality? Why not admit "Free" software is > impossible? The best software is commercial where people vote with > their wallets. > > Until there is a Free Doctors Foundation, Free Food Foundation, Free > Car Foundation, and Free Housing Foundation the will not be a quailty > free software product that is not restricted by commercial interests. > Redhat does not allow you to use their distro for free. You must > modify all logos etc. For the price of one year of Redhat service you > could buy Windows 2003 Server which is supported for 7 years.
Right. All commercial software is better than all free software. And the immediate corollary is that the more expensive the software, the better it is. _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
