[Ilugc] Is the proprietary camp winning ?
- From: binand@xxxxxxxxx (Binand Sethumadhavan)
- Date: Sun Oct 15 14:33:24 2006
On 14/10/06, Sivakumar Ma <masivakumar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
To implement a particular feature, KDE or GNOME can freely borrow from each
other. Please consider the components - a nice function or a super designed
They can - but don't. Think of the multitude of SMTP servers available
as free software. The least they could have done is to implement a
common configuration file format - so that users exercising their
right to choice could do so as painlessly as possible. Did they?
Yes, having a choice is important. Closed source model failed in that
important aspect in case of desktop operating systems :-)
Amen to that.
Binand
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