On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 09:43:22AM -0400, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > If there are only proprietary programs that do a specific job, and it > is desired to have a free program for this job, then we are forced to > reinvent the wheel by the proprietary programs licenses. Forced to by whom? By Jeroen, RMS and you? If there is the proprietary program available I can still choose if I am willing to pay for it or if I am willing to put in the efforts to build something similar. > > Even RMS used > > commercial software when the GNU software for it was not yet written. > > You mean proprietary software. There is no conflict between the GPL Yeah, right, I knew this would come up. I am just short of synonyms for proprietary and I did not want to repeat a word all the time since that is bad style at least in german. > and commerciality (even if Microsoft is trying to implant another > opinion in people's mind). And yes, he did so because this was the > fastest way to achieve the goal of an entirely free operating system. > This goal has by now been achieved. You will not find RMS using vmware > for pure convenience. Okay, right, bad parable. But I am allowed to be a worse guy than RMS, trying to have a real life as well and trying to get the job done. Neither you nor Jeroen will take that away. Thanks Torsten
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