Re: [Freedos-user] Open Source and/or Free Software?

Rugxulo wrote: > The irony is that most people choke on the complexity, even on > "simple" systems, because they get caught up in creeping featurism, > featuritis, code bloat, or whatever you want to call it. It really > shouldn't be this hard to (re)build world. The fact that we (still!) >

Re: [Freedos-user] Open Source and/or Free Software?

Hi, Just coming back to this I hope this isn't too (accidentally) polemical. On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 8:25 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 5:19 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > > For the developers and communicants of the open source

Re: [Freedos-user] Open Source and/or Free Software?

Hi, It's very hard to speak wisely here. Please keep in mind that I'm not strictly advocating against proprietary software (even though I think, sometimes, it has very limited appeal). On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 8:25 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 5:19

Re: [Freedos-user] Open Source and/or Free Software?

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 5:19 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > > I'll add a few comments here: > > Stallman holds a very strict view on "free software" because he > created GNU and the Free Software Foundation for ethical reasons. > Stallman didn't like that companies and organizations

Re: [Freedos-user] Open Source and/or Free Software?

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 7:01 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > Although licensing discussions are usually not productive in their own > right ("shut up and code!"), and it's always a waste of time and words > rehashing the same old issues, there are some helpful web pages that >

[Freedos-user] Open Source and/or Free Software?

Hi, Although licensing discussions are usually not productive in their own right ("shut up and code!"), and it's always a waste of time and words rehashing the same old issues, there are some helpful web pages that clarify (at least to me) various aspects of the computing world at large. In