Re: Commercial programs in Debian
On Monday 08 May 2006 10:37, Dave Ewart wrote:
> On Monday, 08.05.2006 at 03:27 -0500, Miller, Marc wrote:
> > The Debian way is to promote the availability of source code, but is
> > that more important than worldwide adoption in general? The focus
> > should be on capturing the audience first, and converting commercial
> > ISVs to the open source model after you have a captive audience. Am I
> > wrong?
>
> Is one of Debian's (formal) aims "worldwide adoption"? I don't think it
> is... Should it be? That's less clear, but again I think not.
>
> If, by making a superior 'free' (in both senses) operating system
> *leads* to wider adoption, then that's a helpful side-effect, rather
> than a goal, in my opinion.
>
> Dave.
Hi Dave:
I agree. I believe that the choice of the OS is dictated by individual aim and
needs. In scientific quarters debian-pc is of help for unix-mainframe or
debian-workstation (where any automatic mounting is detrimental, and even the
graphical interface is switched off to gain ram for calculations) .
If one is bound to certain applications, following the mainstream relieves
from problems. Either friendly flavors of linux or, why not, no shame,
windows.
regards
francesco pietra
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