[Gllug] Alice in Weirder Lander

[itsbruce at uklinux.net]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 12:29:16AM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 April 2003 09:06, Jason Clifford wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Ian Scott wrote:
> > > > to work on a non proprietary system
> > > >
> > > > 'Not to be used on Windows'
> > >
> > > And how would you enforce this with a GPL'ed product?
> > > Shurely this is anti-Free?
> >
> > Indeed and such restrictions will only confirm to those who believe that
> > we're "commie freaks" that they are right.
> 
> I'm really frightened now.

It's a childish and small-minded restriction.  There are many people who
have not been able to displace Windows in the server room but have
managed to get open source applications (web applications and the like)
running on top of it.  This makes solid OS applications available to
users who might otherwise not benefit and helps soften resistance to Free
Software by demonstrating its usefulness and reliability to those who
are hostile to it.  It also benefits the projects themselves by widening
the user base and the range of environments in which the projects are
tested.

-- 
Bruce


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