Well, we appear to agree. Please note I wasn't labelling anyone a zealot, simply implying that I didn't want the discussion to descend to blind repetitions of principle with no supporting arguments.Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...]
There's nothing wrong with open source projects catering to a market, and there's nothing wrong with running open source software on a proprietary operating system. To behave otherwise might reduce the growth opportunities for Python and its community.
no-zealotry-please-ly y'rs - steve
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I'm hesitant to label everybody who disagrees with you (and me) on that a zealot. Though I tend to take the same side you do, I'm not entirely sure it's not just laziness on my part that I think that way.
Seems to me that holding opinions such as "it's a bad thing to support open source software on closed source systems, and you should not do it, for the common good" is far from crazy, even though I don't currently happen to hold that view.
I have no problem with others taking a different view from mine on this issue, though I reserve the right to disagree with them. My own view is that open source (Python included) wouldn't be anywhere near as advanced and popular as it is if it hadn't been ported to the majority platform, and that this actually positions it better for eventual world domination :-). There's a reason Microsoft are fighting Linux with FUD.
Let's also not forget that at PyCon, (I am told) when Jim Hugunin asked for a show of hands as to who principally developed for Windows platforms, *Guido* raised his hand.
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