On Friday 22 Apr 2005 12:36 am, Santanu Sinha wrote: > hey, > the article was a preview of a software which is very popular and almost > the global standard in it's own right. Just because it's a LUG doesn't mean > that people using GNU/linux will stop using all propreitary software. it > doesn't work that way. for me the philosophy of GNU means freedom of > choice. propreitary software will stay as long as we keep on using > computers. besides i've been working on linux from slackware 1.0 , but > still i haven't found a free software which can iteract with Xilinx FPGA's > the way their propreitary solution does. Think about oracle, SAP they are > good (probably the best) solutions available in their respective segments. > Besides they support the GNU/Linux movement heavily. I think that the > power of windows is only because of the application programs available. > It's better to accept the reality and make it very clear to ourselves that > the propreitay softwares are here to stay. i think that GNU/Linux is the > most powerful operating platform. as such any new apps available on this > platform will make it all the more powerful. -santanu
This is a real flame bait Santanu. On one hand you use the term GNU/Linux, which gives people the impression that you understand the value of freedom. On the other hand you choose to advocate the use non-free software on a free operating system, which itself is against the spirit of the GNU project. Yes, if there were no choice, then the world would be just as bad as a world which had just M$ in it. But then the point here is, that if it cant be free, it aint worth using. Nero is a great piece of software, so is VS. Net, so is MS Office, so is Maya, so is Photoshop. Why not talk about all these on this group. It still would be freedom of choice wont it? Talk about all these if you will, but do mention how they stifle your freedom and that there is a free alternative available. I'd rather use a crippled free software program than be crippled by a feature rich non-free alternative. Its great disservice to the community when you dont point out that the application that you are reviewing is non-free. No disrespect meant to you, but those are just my 2 bits of advice. -- /Sumeet Sumeet Madhukar MogheÂÂhttp://cipher-quaker.blogspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ GnuPG Keys: ÂÂÂhttp://smith-morgan.mirrorz.com/gnupg.txt Fingerprint : Â1388 881A 6FED A370 78B7 1342 2F51 20C9 083C 704D ------------------------------------------------------------------ Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
