Jeremy Bertenshaw writes: > Heres an interesting thought... > > If windows was free i.e. available for $0 would you switch? > > How much of an impact would this have on peoples use of > OSS? if they gave away the OS, but you still had to pay > for the apps? > > jeremyb. > > >
The most important aspect of the Free Software fandango to me is the community aspect. Not being much of a programmer, or for that matter a systems tinkerer, the source code's availability to me is not much of a day-to-day issue (although I like the thought of being able to add my own features and fix my own bugs, if only I could program :] ). However, I very much like the fact that the source code is open to other people, and the development is driven by a community of users and programmers working for themselves rather than by a company focused on the bottom line. I can in theory join this community if I ever get good enough at programming. I don't get that with microsoft. -- |Andrew Tarr | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://arc.stuff.gen.nz |GPG Public Key:- http://arc.stuff.gen.nz/andrew.gpg |_____ "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportions" --Francis Bacon |~~~~~ |
