On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 04:46:29PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: > That's true. In my country the public administration - including the > university - is wasting public money (derived from taxation) in software that > is found with debian, sometimes of better quality. They could better make > donations to free software. > > However, there is scientific proprietary software from small softwarehouses > that has decades of experience and development, is sold with accompanying > source code, and solves problems that debian is quite far from solving. > Again, don't ask me the names because I am not advertising (and I am user not > softwarehouse) but I believe that such softwarehouses deserve full support. > They have my support. > > In other words my point is not free software ueber alles, may point is > serious > software ueber alles (which implies getting the source code of the > proprietary software, albeit with restriction to use it in connection with > modifying the code to adapt the software to, say, the particular > calculations).
Nothing prevents a company from compiling and packaging their software for debian. Opera does a perfectly good job supporting debian with premade packages. It is a rather small and easy job to do, so any company that cares about its customers shoudl be willing to do it. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]