Re: Software in main that is throughly useless without non-free software
John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> writes:
> James Troup <james@nocrew.org> writes:
>
> > > First, you are removing a very important distinction: You have no
> > > control over what is on the other end of the connection.
> >
> > Eh? So what?
>
> The point is that every single TCP/IP client that is in existance now
> or ever will be has a free server available: netcat. This renders
> other distinctions meaningless, I think.
Oh, purlease. This is sophistry. When talking about common every day
usage of a client like TiK; now using netcat as a server might sound
c00l, 3l33t and funny on IRC, but how useful is it in real life? It's
not.
--
James
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