On Sat, 21 Jul 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Our message is that non-free software is unjust and illegitimate.
Hi Richard, I'm an Oracle professional. I don't see any free software close to as good as their database software. Its a fairly easy argument to make that if all software were free, Oracle wouldn't be in business, therefore nobody would be able to use a database as good as Oracle's is today. Isn't it a bit of an illegitimate charter to try and get people to not use the best software available just because it does not have the "freedoms" GNU expouses? If GNU got it way, all the world, in some cases, would have to be subjected to substandard software just because all of software had to be free. In some cases, the world would have to go without their software needs being fulfilled because there were no free software to support those needs, at all. My argument for free software has always been how great the software is that is free. For example, I can't praise Emacs enough amongst my colleagues. But, at the same time, I've never argued that all software should be free. That seems unfair to those using commercial software that is better than the free alternatives. -- Galen Boyer _______________________________________________ gnu-emacs-sources mailing list gnu-emacs-sources@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-emacs-sources