> I don't understand how you can make the claim that this community is
unhelp.
> Even to non-free software proponents.
I assume that instead of the personal 'you' the impersonal 'one' or specifc
'they' was intended. I certainly don't think this community is unhelpful.
I can quite understand how they arrived at their point of view. If you fail
to understand that ethics are as natural to computing as they are to medical
science, then you end up being distracted by the sort of cheap arguments of
price, or function that also apply to free software. If function is a big
thing then you then end up in the mistaken position of when you are not told
how to gain more function because it isn't free you relate to it as
'unhelpful.'
Actually we're being very helpful in that circumstance. Using proprietary
code is a big mistake. Helping people avoid that mistake is a good, helpful
thing.
