Yes Linux is about choice and about freedom , all of freedome, not just part of it. It is also about the freedome of the human intellect. It seems non-free business model invariable depend upon encapsulation, portioning, depriving and locking bits and peaces of the abovementioned things. No wonder business like that will have problems living in a very-free and open environment like that. :-) Cheers Szemir
On January 26, 2004 19:28, Jesse Kline wrote: > <quote> > The Linux distribution scene is a complete mess. Apart from the kernel > everything including the desktop is fractured and fragmented. This > situation is not good for business as it confuses both customers and third > party application vendors. To strengthen its position in the operating > system market, Linux needs to present a nice and coherent facade. > </quote> > > Since when did choice, and the freedom to make that choice become a bad > thing? For me, Linux is all about choice. It's the choice not to have to > use Windows, not to have to pay high prices for a commercial OS, and the > choice to use the software that you want to use. You have the choice to use > KDE, Gnome, or one of many other WM's/DE's, the choice to use OpenOffice, > Gnome Office, KOffice, or even MS Office (amoung others), etc. Without > these choices Linux would loose much of it's appeal. So I say keep up the > good work to all the developers who are working on Open Source software. I > for one hope that the Linux world doesn't become consolidated so that we > are left with on DE running on one distro. > > Jesse > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
