On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 10:34:55AM +0100, Anders Arnholm wrote: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 08:42:08PM +0100, Peter Mathiasson wrote: > > Wouldn't it be better to help making wine support thoose applications? > > Or, even better of course, make free compatible software. > > Yes but some need to sole real world problems today and not to morrow. > If everyone had done the same reasoung as you do we still wouldn't have > a large amounth of gnu tools. As someone firs wouls have created the > hurd kernel or Linux before starting to make other stuff like ls, gcc, > emacs and so on. Well, at that time there where no free kernel, so therefore making free software for non-free kernels was the only way to go. Not everyone wants to make a kernel. Theese days we have two free kernels supported by Debian, why support a non-free? -- Peter Mathiasson | GPG Fingerprint: E-Mail: peter@mathiasson.nu | A9A7 F8F6 9821 F415 B066 Web : http://www.mathiasson.nu | 77F1 7FF5 C2E6 7BF2 F228
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