__/ [ Andrea ] on Thursday 05 April 2007 02:21 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> Please do not port software to Windows!
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | While the GNU General Public License expressly prohibits me from
>> | denying you the freedom to port software protected by it to Windows,
>> | I feel that you do great damage to the world if you do. Let me explain.
>> |
>> | Windows is a proprietary environment. They don't give you the source
>> | code, and they do anything in their power to limit your freedom. They
>> | even try to limit what you can do with the software you rightfully
>> | bought from them. So, supporting them in any way is bad for the
>> | world, because it encourages others to try to limit others'
>> | freedoms (it worked great for Microsoft, so it must be a good
>> | idea, right?).
>> `----
>>
>
> Although usually I find your [news] posts interesting, this one is
> idiotic. Why? Because this post is about limiting freedom of choice, as
> well as about limiting interoperability beetween OSes.
I was going to append a little comment to say that I disagree with this item,
which is a tad overzealous.
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