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From: "Arko Provo Mukherjee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "ilug-cal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: [ilug-cal] Fw: [LIG] FSF India goes proprietary
> On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 00:25, Jaybrata Bhattacharyya wrote:
> >
> > 1. GIMP makes logo better than Photoshop. if you have not tried it
then
> > have a look.
>
> That is the personal opinion of the person who made the logo
this way any comparative statement can marked as personal opinion.
if that is so then making decision will be totally impossible - it will be
total anarchy. in democratic set-up general consensus is taken as the right
one. but in this case that is not needed. i am challenging you to prove the
contrary to what i have said - "GIMP makes logo better than Photoshop" from
all prospects ;-)
>
> > 2. Sporting material produced by proprietary software, specially by
those
> > which have free alternative, carries a negative impression. Would you
like
> > to see linux docs in MS-WORD format? it makes a ridicule of the whole
thing.
>
> It was not the format. It was the tool used that was non-free. It's like
> editing a .txt file with M$ Windows. FSF has no objection to that. It
> wants people to use Free Software, but doesn't force people to do so.
> In the FSF-Freinds list, it was declared that it is not a mistake and
> the volunteer has every right to use the software he wants to use.
>
at the first place i am sorry for giving a bad example [ there is
open office :) ]. but try to understand that i was talking about software,
not file formats. i have yet to see any file format with IP restriction. as
long as there is no such restriction there will be no 'CHOOTMARG' in linux
about using those formats, provided they are supported by FLOSS [ e.g.
postscript and pdf are originally produced by proprietary software, but they
are widely accepted formats on linux, because there are well supported by
FLOSS ]. text files don't carry any meta information. so no one will be able
to make any guess about the software by which they were produced. but do you
need to use M$Word for writing a simple text file? the whole thing is about
the
spirit of FLOSS and public impression. Those two things are damaged most by
this kind of activity.
> > 3. If someone is not using pirated software, what will be of more
> > importance to him while choosing between a astronomically priced
proprietary
> > solution's ease of use and a free one's cost and future possibilities?
>
> The Free solution might be easy to use too. Why do you rule out that
> possibility.
>
may be. but after all that doesn't make things anything better for
proprietary software, for which you are advocating ;-)
> Regards
> Arko
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jaybrata
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