On 10/18/07, Manoj Srivastava srivasta@debian.org wrote:
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 promotingnon-free software or non-free platforms. Your mileage may of course
What do you think is wrong with doing that?
vary; but my goals are closely related to freedom of software long-term, not short term expediency.
As far as goals are concerned, we concur!
Well no matter how hard every linuxer tries, every computer user on earth won't shift to Linux!!
That's their problem.[...] 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, mightwell work withing parameters. That in no way means I am going to spend any effort supporting them, or trying to interact with them.
That said, you're treating FOSS as hardcore religion, and religion today, sir, is mostly *used* for all the wrong reasons!
I am not opposing other people doing what they want; I juststrongly reject that that is what people in a free software related forum should be working towards.
Definitely not _promoting_ non-free software! But yes being able to interact with them or their output formats gives me, as a Linux user, some added advantage, some more power and *freedom* for sure!
Regards