On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 14:14 -0600, Josh Coates wrote: > >When you use proprietary software, you are selling your future. At least > >Larry McVoy is being friendly about things. > > what i got out of the article was something a little different.
Because you were looking at it while wearing your "American capitalist producer of proprietary software that might make me filthy stinking rich" glasses. I was wearing my "repeat victim of proprietary software just trying to accomplish something and move the economy forward productively" glasses. You saw "OSDL employee tries to compete with BitMover". I saw, "BitMover tried to force its will on a user". Ultimately, that's what proprietary software is about: holding customers hostage. Meanwhile commercial OSS is about trying to figure out what customers are willing to pay for while dealing with the constant threat of them of them switching to somebody more responsive. As an end user, I prefer the latter. As a developer, I've never enjoyed being part of the former. -- Stuart Jansen e-mail/jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "XML is like violence: if it doesn't solve your problem, you aren't using enough of it." - Chris Maden
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