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Re: Proposal: Keep non-free



On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:04:57AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> #include <hallo.h>
> * MJ Ray [Sun, Mar 07 2004, 11:44:16PM]:
> 
> > >hardware manufacturers (in the last instance) only. Do you think that
> > >they produce everything built in their devices?
> > 
> > Do you really think that hardware manufacturers don't decide what to 
> > build into their devices?
> 
> Of course they do, but they have different primary goals, eg. produce
> the hardware product in this century, make it good enough to sell enough
> of it. Or do you prefer hardware that is 10 times slower or incompatible
> to what 95% of the market uses, beeing 200% more expensive?

Ah, the old argument that says free software can never possibly work
or compete with commercial software.

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