On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 01:02:54PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > In such cases I sometimes decide to run the non-free tool if it saves > > me some time. After all I want to get my job done and I want to have > > some time left for leisure or for working on stuff like free software. > > You restrict yourself to get some leisure. Don't complain that you are > restricted from doing something afterways when it doesn't work anymore > and you don't have leisure anymore. That's fine with me. At least I'll have a lot more leisure when using an available product instead of re-inventing the wheel. Even RMS used commercial software when the GNU software for it was not yet written. With your logic he would have written the Hurd kernel and gcc, libc, etc. before using a computer. And of course he would have written it in machine language since there was no sufficiently versatile free C compiler available. > > Like you I want other people to use free software as well because then > > I hope not being asked about those silly opaque problems in proprietary > > programs anymore. > > Please don't see you want it like me. I like it because of moral > things, you just because you get some advantages of it. If non-free Please don't tell me why I am using free software. I am using it mostly for moral reasons and this is why I am in the Debian project after all - I want to give back to the community. > software give you (short-term) advantages then you even use that. I > would never do that because free software is always better in the long > term. So please don't boot your PC. Or do you have a free BIOS installed? > > But I am not going to attack anybody because he > > likes the proprietary stuff better, not even if it is extreme silly to > > do so. If somebody tells me about yet another Outlook problem I will > > just smirk and go on to the next email. > > Yes, and I will tell him why he has this problems and that there is > some solutions for it (namely using a good, free MUA). You just let > the person helpless, I try to point him to the fix. However if you try > to help somebody you should not be a debian developers because you You never tried to help somebody. You are only projecting your view on other persons and taking their freedom away. Frustrated Torsten
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