It's nice that restaurants and farmers were mentioned, but when thinking about proprietary software by companies that big as Microsoft, a better analogy would be a comparison with Monsanto. Replication-incompetent proprietary seeds, sold in combination with the required poisons that kill bees, humans, more or less everything, excepted of the monster plants. And now the bomb drops, it's forbidden to safe old seeds and to give them away for free or for less money, without paying for EU licenses. "Randomly" those EU licenses only could be paid by big companies. Another valid comparison would be with food speculation done by big banks, so that starvation death becomes a profitable business model. The ideals of RMS could be a starting point for reflection. If you disagree with those ideals, because you e.g. think that they are unworldly, ok, but it's still a leap from disagreeing with RMS, to claims about Microsoft, a 10^12 $ capital range "company", not being evil on purpose. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
