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Article #1408Re: Software company monopolies (Was Re: KDE v. Gnome)
From: Phil Hunt
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 00:00
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In article <87emsns1aw.fsf@ivm.de>
Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de "Klaus Schilling" writes:
> Applixwarez and $tarorifice are proprietary crap. There's no place for them on
> GNU/Linux. Only traitors and backstabbers like A.C. encourage their usage.
Don't use these packages if you don't want to. If other people want
to use them, they should be allowed to. BTW, at least one of these
is free for non-commercial use.
BTW, I find your attitude unhelpful. I support the use of Open
Source software, but I suspect your extremist attitude just puts
people off.
> Only free competing packeges can be better products, proprietary ones are as
> much dirt and junk as MS office.
That's not true, any proprietary package that isn't as bloated, buggy
and incompatible as MS office, is much better.
> They gained it soley by making deals with $atan.
Now you are going too far.
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