On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 11:51:51PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:57:57AM +0300, Axel Thimm wrote: > > But we're beyond the age of this kind of symbiosis, Linux (or > > GNU/Linux ...) and Fedora in particular doesn't need this anymore. > > The actual reality, real stuff in the real world, is that 90%+ of > users of desktop computer systems run Windows, another 5%+ are running > Mac OS X, and almost nobody (perhaps 10, 100 people in the whole > world?) are running a completely free operating system (inc. BIOS > etc). No one denies that, but don't we want to keep the fruits of F/LOSS to encourage more F/LOSS usage? Hijacking F/LOSS solutions back to closed source will not change the percentages above, on the contrary, you remove some of the good reasons to go Linux. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
