On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 11:00:29AM -0500, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > Sylvain Beucler wrote: > > >Free software users mustn't be enticed to use proprietary software. > >If there are multiple backends, the best (or equal-best) backend must > >rely on free software. If CUDA is a suboptimal (or equal-best) > >backend, that's ok. If CUDA is a better backend than a free software > >alternative, that's not ok. > > apologies for ripping the conversation sideways but, there's one > axiom which overrides this and that is the area of handicapped > accessibility.
I'll be brief, but accessibility is not the only area where proprietary software has an edge over free software - and in those areas, we at Savannah don't consider that we should support proprietary software for technical reasons. -- Sylvain
