Re: Using proprietary software [was: Re: one-paragraph comments on s/w freedom being more important than tech niftiness]

2020-05-12 Thread Jean Louis
* John Darrington [2020-05-12 12:28]: > On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 09:34:50AM -0700, Kaz Kylheku (gnu-misc-discuss) > wrote: > > > However, using proprietary tools also isn't inherently unethical. > > > > (Also, if you're using tools to produce proprietary software (which > > free tools cheerfully

Using proprietary software [was: Re: one-paragraph comments on s/w freedom being more important than tech niftiness]

2020-05-12 Thread John Darrington
On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 09:34:50AM -0700, Kaz Kylheku (gnu-misc-discuss) wrote: > However, using proprietary tools also isn't inherently unethical. > > (Also, if you're using tools to produce proprietary software (which > free tools cheerfully allow), the debate of which tools it is ethical > to

Re: one-paragraph comments on s/w freedom being more important than tech niftiness

2020-05-12 Thread Kaz Kylheku (gnu-misc-discuss)
On 2020-05-08 17:40, Mark Galassi wrote: Dear GNU folk, Long ago I had a conversation with a fellow long-time GNU developer. We were talking about how we had come upon free software in the 1980s and early 1990s. We were discussing how sometimes we had felt exhilerated by, for example, the co

Re: one-paragraph comments on s/w freedom being more important than tech niftiness

2020-05-11 Thread Jean Louis
* Mark Galassi [2020-05-10 19:37]: > > Dear GNU folk, > > Long ago I had a conversation with a fellow long-time GNU developer. We > were talking about how we had come upon free software in the 1980s and > early 1990s. > > We were discussing how sometimes we had felt exhilerated by, for > examp

one-paragraph comments on s/w freedom being more important than tech niftiness

2020-05-10 Thread Mark Galassi
Dear GNU folk, Long ago I had a conversation with a fellow long-time GNU developer. We were talking about how we had come upon free software in the 1980s and early 1990s. We were discussing how sometimes we had felt exhilerated by, for example, the coming of gcc, or gcc-2, which were so techni