On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 04:10:16PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > >J.D. Hood wrote: > >> On the other hand, if there is a set of different forms > >> each of which is convertible into the others by means of > >> freely available tools then any member of the set is as > >> good as any other. > Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> wrote: > > What if the program is written using proprietary tools and formats, > > and translated into commented, maintainable C/java for release? > > By hypothesis we have free tools that convert the C/java program > into the proprietary format. So if the proprietary is the format > you want to use, simply convert it into that format. You are > happy. You cannot modify reality to suit yourself in this fashion. Such tools will generally not exist, in either proprietary or free versions. In general, you are attempting to introduce a prejudice against creating free software with non-free tools; I do not consider such a restriction appropriate. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
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