Re: Proposal: Keep non-free

[Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>]

Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > > >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.

fwiw: free software and commercial software don't exclude each other.
Guess you are referring to proprietary software instead.

Regards,

	Joey

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