RE: [Fsfe-uk] NCC Filetab for Linux

[Martyn Ranyard]

At 01:00 PM 7/1/02 +0100, Tom Weiss wrote:
> [Tom Weiss says]
>
> Given that this software is free (as in beer) if not GPL'd, runs on
> Linux, and fills a gap in the currently available software, this seems
> like a rather unsporting response.
>
> If you really want free software to take off you need to work with
> people outside the community rather than attack them.
>
> t.

I don't think I am out of order, the poster should have known better - he 
posted a report on open source (sic), the list is FSF-europe, and I don't 
care what the software does, it's proprietary and therefore not 
free.  Definitely not the place to post, at least not without warning 
readers that it isn't free.  This list is not about free as in cost free - 
it is about free as in freedom.

A lot of people on this list are interested in freedom, myself included, 
and will not sacrifice time and effort on a program that could never 
release another version, so any usage would be locked in.  I will pay for 
free software, but I will not install non-free software into GNU/Linux, and 
I think a lot of other people on this list will agree with me.


Martyn Ranyard
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