Re: Galeon R.I.P?
Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>:
> On Jan 1, 2008 7:10 AM, s. keeling <keeling@nucleus.com> wrote:
> > Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>:
> > > On Dec 30, 2007 7:11 AM, default <plute@sdf-eu.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Same here. I've tried quite a few browsers, but none keep up with opera
> > > > for speed. Shame it's not Open Source, but you can't have everything.
> > >
> > > You could boycott it for being proprietary. That's the morally
> > > correct answer.
> >
> > Since when does proprietary == immoral? Who made your CPU? Intel or
> > AMD? Aren't they proprietary?
>
> Hardware has scarcity which software lacks. There's no economic
> reason to sell software. Programmers should sell their service since
Says you. I think you should spend the next year in a Cat in the Hat
suit, but I doubt you'll comply.
Programmers doing that work for paying customers generally do what the
paying customers request, not what the programmers decide to give
them. Any possibility for immorality in the process would be better
pointed at customers, not programmers.
So, are you going to slam all your friends and family for their
egregious immorality in using Windows? I think they're foolish for
doing that, not immoral.
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