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Re: Release plans
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Richard M Stallman |
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Re: Release plans |
Date: |
Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:01:38 -0400 |
MS-Windows, like fossil-fuelled transportation, is something undesirable,
but difficult to avoid without separating from mainstream society.
They are not similar; avoiding Windows is far easier. Please do not
exaggerate.
If I
were to reject paid work involving MS-Windows and (proprietary) Unix, I
would need to find paid work outside of software development.
I was prepared to do that if necessary in 1984. Fortunately I
did not have to. Maybe you wouldn't either.
As far as I
can, I run only free software at home. However my PC's BIOS is not free,
On fsf.org there are recommendations for PCs that run with a free BIOS.
and neither is the software in my DSL router - yet. Would you likewise
suggest I should not use DSL until fully free firmware becomes available?
No, I expect that router does not count. I'd expect users don't
install software at all in that, so it might as well be a circuit, and
we don't need to ask whether there is actually software inside it.
You are arguing against a straw man that didn't come from me.
Sadly,
the freedom in free software doesn't excite most people - Emacs's
capabilities do, though.
Have you seen any cases where that eventually led a person to switch
from proprietary software to free software?
Re: Release plans, dhruva, 2008/07/30
Re: Release plans, dhruva, 2008/07/31