Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 19:39:51 -0600 Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk@yola.bmrb.wisc.edu> wrote:
> * John Griffiths (john@capmon.com) spake thusly:
> > >And that fish is relevant to "free" vs "closed" software exactly how?
> >
> > Because the developers were free to put it in
> >
> > and you are free to take it out if you care enough
> >
> > you're not free to decide the developers priorities for them
> >
> > only for yourself.
>
> Oh, I see. "Free" as in "free to put useless bloat in". This isn't
> what people usually mean by "free software" (FVO "people" not
> including gnome developers and those who don't think the rain is wet).
Free as in speech: free to write/code what you want on your own time.
As another post said: you have the source; it's GPL; if you don't like
bloat, rip it out.
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