> So basically, you want to restrict the use of a software to a specific > type of operating system? Like M$ does?
Not a _specific_ OS. There are _many_ open-source OS's out there and none of them have monopolistic agenda like Apple or M$. Nor do they use the open-source community efforts to promote their own commercial products. Hence, having such a distinction would pretty much limit only use of software on primarily these two platforms (and perhaps AIX and SUN (for which there could be a clause added to remedy the exclusion, since IBM is after all a great supporter of the oss community), and SCO's crap for which I could not care less). > This is against the idea of free software. I never heard of a free > software license that restricts the use of a software to a specific type > of operating system, computer of peripheral. Adding this restriction to > the GPL and use double licensing would not make it better, it would make > it non-free. Read the GPL. Here's an excerpt: "Activities other than > copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; > they are outside its scope." Again, please read what I've stated and then respond. I am not advocating the change of GPL, but creating a new derived license which simply ensures that the efforts of the open-source community primarily benefit (gasp!) us, the open-source community, not some company with monopolistic agenda, regardless how successful (Msft) or unsuccessful they are (Apple). IIRC GPL license allows for such provisions (i.e. original developer may choose to restrict the change of the "about" page in their app, and this perfectly fine by the GPL's standards). > So GNU/Linux users are elitists because they can use command line tools? > You sound like a typical elitist Mac user... ;-) Taking one's statement out of the context and making further conclusions upon that statement is not only immature and inflammatory, but it is also plain dumb, smilies or not. It is, however, amusing how you came about to that conclusion since you could not be farther off from the truth than you currently are. Being "elitist" towards outsiders who express even a mild interest in the Linux/oss community will repel them before they even get a chance to taste the good aspects of Linux. ---- I would love to hear from Paul Davis on this issue since he is one of the most involved contributors in this community when it comes to monetary dependence. Paul? Ivica Ico Bukvic, composer & multimedia sculptor http://meowing.ccm.uc.edu/~ico
