* Moshe Goldfarb. peremptorily fired off this memo:
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:53:27 -0400, Linonut wrote:
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> Given the choice of a FOSS CODEC pack and a proprietary one and assuming
> they both worked equally, I would go for the FoSS one every time.
> The problem is that is usually not the case.
I can't really judge on that, because I use no proprietary codecs, as
far as I know.
> I hate being locked in and I hate being on some sort of mandatory upgrade
> mill like VCR/DVD/Blueray etc.
>
> For a lot of these people I wonder how much of the venom directed at
> proprietary solutions is more of a hate of the concept vs the actual
> benefits to THEM of using FOSS solutions.
Well, sometimes you find that the proprietary vendor just doesn't quite
get the concept with Linux. Awful installers, primitive make-files,
extreme bloatware.
I can appreciate that VMware wants a stable platform on which to run
their stuff, but do they really need to stick 190 Mb of version-specific
standard Linux libraries into /usr/lib/vmware?
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The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
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