On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 19:39:34 +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 19:14:56 +0800, Orlando Andico > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Free software is great. And having source code is great. And being > > able to hack is great. But-- if a job needs doing, and free software > > can't do it, I won't hesitate to use proprietary software. > > Linus Torvalds has this type of philosophy too :)
Yeah well. Not everyone can afford to be idealistic. I guess I'm not as hard-core as Stallman wants all of us developers to be. But let's all be honest with ourselves -- how many of the people on this list can be as hard-core as Stallman is? (you should read his missives that "we should all live with lower pay, because anyway programmers still earn much more than the average farm laborer") And to Zak, who seems to think I have no business being on this list-- I hardly read this list now, in fact. Call me old and cranky, but it doesn't seem worth it anymore. There's hardly anything of interest. Just the uncritical Linux cheering squad. Thanks, but no thanks. I went thru my cheering squad period many years ago. So why "cut and prune and give my unwanted useless opinion?" Well I guess I'm ornery. Or stupid. I just get tired of all the one-sided bias going on here. Just so you know, Zak, my occupation *DEPENDS* on Linux absolutely. So don't go around thinking I'm an M$ hack. But I'm not blind to the fact that for MANY things (call me a suit if you will..) you have to use Windows. No, I wouldn't want to make a flash-based router with Windows (I can't imagine where to start actually) but there are oh-so-many things I can't do in Linux either. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
