On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:25:18 +0530, Unknown unknown@unknown.invalid said:
Ahem, coming to the point, shouldn't we rather channelise our energies towards making *all* these prominent platforms work together seamlessly, at least pointing to ways to achieve that objective?
No. I am not going to spend any energy supporting, or promoting non-free software or non-free platforms. Your mileage may of course vary; but my goals are closely related to freedom of software long-term, not short term expediency.
Well no matter how hard every linuxer tries, every computer user on earth won't shift to Linux!!
That's their problem.
Well I love my GNU box but to be frank I used Windoze without a single glitch since the last 4 yrs! Not a single reformat, reinstall, "virus epidemic" or any destructive maintenance operation for that matter! And I believe it will always be the same for my Linux box unless i remain utterly careless and ignorant about its functioning. So, thats the point. If well maintained, both these systems work to satisfactory level of efficiency.
Closed systems, while trampling of freedoms of the user, might well work withing parameters. That in no way means I am going to spend any effort supporting them, or trying to interact with them.
I am not opposing other people doing what they want; I just strongly reject that that is what people in a free software related forum should be working towards.
manoj