🚀 go-pugleaf

vinsci@brando.uwasa.fi (Leonard Norrgard) writes:
> Chip Salzenberg (chip@tct.com) wrote:
> > According to johnston@me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston):
> > >[GPL code] is free-er in every sense of the word than any other 
> > >software I've worked with...
> > 
> > Then apparently you've never used X, or Deliver, or any other system
> > either public domain or copyrighted but released for unrestricted use.
> 
> Unfortunately, I have to use a hoarded X display every day at work.
> The makers of it won't give us sources so we could fix the bugs
> ourselves.

So why the hell did you buy the damn thing?  Honestly, buying hardware from a
manufacturer that treats its customers shoddily and then complaining that
you're being treated shoddily is a bit perverse.  Do you really think the GPL
would have eliminated the manufacturer's ability to treat you badly?  If so,
dream on.

> While I can't get the X bugs fixed for the reason described above, I
> *can* run all the latest and greatest FSF software on the machines
> here.

Sounds to me like people have bothered to patch FSF software to work on your
system, but they haven't bothered to patch the free X to work on your system. 
So what?  There's nothing stopping you from patching X to run on your system,
or paying someone else to do it.  What, you mean you didn't take that cost
into account when buying the system?


mathew