[YLUG] Install practice results

Pete Fenelon pete at fenelon.com
Sun Oct 22 22:21:51 BST 2006


On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 10:04:40PM +0100, Arthur Clune wrote:
> 
> You'll lose more friends from 'flash/mp3 doesn't work' than from the
> 'proprietary stuff has no place in linux' lot. The latter group are
> probably capable of doing their own install for starters.
> 

Absolutely. Zealotry isn't going to convert anyone away from
entirely-proprietary systems. A measure of pragmatism is needed. I would
hazard a guess that far more users are interested in software that's
free-as-in-beer than free-as-in-speech.

pete
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