On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 08:39:30PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 01:30:52AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > > Wrong? Well http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Commercial-HOWTO.html uses the > > term to mean exactly that. > > I can't see (from a quick sampling of the items in there) that any of the > items in that list are free, lock-in software. Could you point them out to > me?
Er, not sure what you mean by that. > > Certainly other meanings could be derived, but I think my definition is > > the most common in the context it was used. > > It hasn't been for several years, and it is confusing to refer to lock-in > "proprietary" software as "commercial", as the two terms are very close to > orthogonal. I agree. However, the file in question is dated from 1997, back when "commercial" and "proprietary" were used interchangeably when referring to software. Really, how useful is a 414 LOC "library" to parse ftp LIST output from 1997 anyway? Instead of arguing over it, why not just replace it with something more up-to-date? -- Society is never going to make any progress until we all learn to pretend to like each other.