Michael Fötsch wrote: > Matthew Flaschen wrote: >> It's not fair to tar the whole open source community with ESR's views. > > Not the whole community. I'm referring to Linspire specifically, because > as far as I know, Eric Raymond is involved with them.
That's true. > > A significant amount of their software is proprietary, >> and that isn't open source or free. > > This seems to make them an "open source company" just in the sense of > the essay. Yes, but I don't think most in the open source community would agree that a company distributing mostly proprietary software is an "open source company". In that respect, the essay isn't fair either. > Anyway, I don't want to criticize Linspire any more than I criticize > Novell or Xandros, or ESR, for that matter. I don't use their products > and I don't share their views. I just don't understand why it's > surprising that Linspire made this move... Oh, it certainly isn't. I was just expecting Mandriva first. Matthew Flaschen _______________________________________________ Advocate mailing list [email protected] http://badvista.fsf.org/mailman/listinfo/advocate
