D. Venkatasubramanian wrote: > And what do you define as Non-Linux and why can't Non-free softwares be > discussed. Non-Linux coz its a Linux Mailing list isn't it. 'Non-Free' has a greater chance of violating the non-self promotion rule which is applicable to most of the technical mailing lists.
> Don't you want to get paid when you write a software? Not everyone is a > software administrator. There are guys who have to write code for a > living. And if that software does not have much of a service that can be > provided, then it has to be sold as a product commercially. Commercial!='Proprietary' See list archives for more on that. > And probably you don't know why there are so many > developers working on Linux Kernel / GCC / GDB etc. Most of them are > paid, not because their companies are commited to Open source, but > because they have very little choice, though no company admits it. So! http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/05/04/1058254 > BTW, if you say Linux is good, then how do you define "Good", good is a > qualitative term, and it has to be relative to something that is bad. We can have comparisons however be warned they usually get ugly and fruitless after a couple of 100 threads have forked out of that discussion. Normally my OS/Language/Printer/Hardware-Platform is better than yours is a fruitless discussion. Mine will always be better. > So, how do you call something "Good" unless you don't discuss the "Bad" > constructively? Think about it ... Apart from comparison there are issues that need to be solved. -Tarun _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
