On Monday 22 August 2005 02:03, Lee Revell wrote: > On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 23:15 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > But it excludes free audio software on other operating > > systems. Many tools are also available for Mac OS or even > > Windows. > > Porting free software to non free OSes is terribly > shortsighted and hurts the entire free software community. We > should not encourage it. > > Lee I disagree strongly. I support Open and Free by using linux since about 1996 or 7 and not using windows since 3 or 4 years ago. But it hasn't been free of headaches. And the kernel/bleeding edge stuff .... I don't know how to describe what i'm feeling And I'm pleased to see linux developed software breaking into windows and mac land. Rather than hurting the Free and Open community, I think it may help it. I've never used a mac; lot's of my musician friends do. But if the day were to come that I could get "mac os" and KDE, and Audacity, ..., I certainly would consider installing it and using it along with linux. In short, I think the Free and Open community extends beyond a single os. Marv
