> > Now if you allow your Open Source Applications to be ported to this > > proprietary OSes, you strengthen this behaviour and weaken the Open > > Source Movement. People will get your software but will stick with OSX > > or whatever cause of this called Killerapps. Systems. > > Just to add a bit onto this issue is that we could still support > non-opensource systems, but they would need to purchase the software > (see my other e-mail with the Trolltech as an example). >
Please, you guys sound like a government that wants to regulate everything with laws and taxes. If we (the open source movement) let our "enemies" (closed-source businesses) make us behave like them, we have lost. A more creative approach would be to make a good OSX emulator (inverse Darwin) which lets those people run their killer apps under Linux. And by the way, isn't someone who uses and contributes to open-source apps under OSX/Solaris/etc still a part of the open source movement?
