Tarquin Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Tarquin Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Should the FSF back complete monopolisation by Microsoft, or should >> > it be against, as it aims to produce an operating system written in >> > 100% free software code? >> >> It does neither mean that I back all my neighbors or am against all of >> them if I happen not to try bedding them. >> >> Microsoft is by and large irrelevant to free software as long as >> they don't indulge in business practices that harm free software, >> like pressuring vendors into producing hardware that is incapable >> of running it. > > We are all part of the world and connected to each other, the Linux > magazines cannot exist without readers and adverts, the same is true > of other Linux companies including distros.
So what? Free software existed before Linux, and certainly before "the Linux magazines" and their "readers and adverts". The majority of free software _developers_ whose work gets collected in "distros" is not employed by Linux companies. And Linux companies don't compete in that segment of the market that Microsoft is monopolizing, anyway. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
