From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Jul 6 19:46:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9922937B695; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 19:46:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA02057; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 20:46:17 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000706203912.047e4f00@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 20:46:05 -0600 To: Rahul Siddharthan From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: No port of Opera? (Was: ((FreeBSD : Linux) :: (OS/2 : Windows))) Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Narvi , Dann Lunsford , chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000707074448.A4511@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000706193313.04a8ca40@localhost> <53082.962927902@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20000706193313.04a8ca40@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 08:14 PM 7/6/2000, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >I have a better idea. Let's all use opensource software. No need for >emulation then. > >Well, it works for me anyway. Remember, most open source software consists of copies of commercial products. The commercial products need to be there first. And the majority of people (especially businesspeople who don't want to be computer geeks like us) desire software that's written, packaged, and supported by people who stake their daily bread on it rather than being volunteers. Finally, too much of the software out there that claims to be "Open Source" is not Open Source at all. It's GPLed. (The GPL violates the Open Source Definition in that it discriminates against a field of endeavor: commercial software development. Therefore, despite claims to the contrary, GPLed software is NOT Open Source.) There isn't enough TRUE open source software out there -- at least not yet -- to fill all the needs most of us have. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message