In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> David Kastrup wrote: > Tarquin Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> David Kastrup wrote: > >> Tarquin Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > Should the FSF back complete monopolisation by Microsoft, or should > >> > it be against, as it aims to produce an operating system written in > >> > 100% free software code? > >> > >> It does neither mean that I back all my neighbors or am against all of > >> them if I happen not to try bedding them. > >> > >> Microsoft is by and large irrelevant to free software as long as > >> they don't indulge in business practices that harm free software, > >> like pressuring vendors into producing hardware that is incapable > >> of running it. > > > > We are all part of the world and connected to each other, the Linux > > magazines cannot exist without readers and adverts, the same is true > > of other Linux companies including distros. > > So what? Free software existed before Linux, and certainly before > "the Linux magazines" and their "readers and adverts". The majority > of free software _developers_ whose work gets collected in "distros" > is not employed by Linux companies. And Linux companies don't compete > in that segment of the market that Microsoft is monopolizing, anyway. According to a NYLXS radio program about 93-94% of the Linux kernel is written by people who are being paid. GNU/Linux, FSF's GNU Hurd and Microsoft's Windows are all in the same market, operating systems.
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