--- Robin Laing <Robin.Laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
g.freed wrote:
Robin Laing wrote:
Nils Holland wrote:
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 17:14 -0600, Jeff Vian
Robin, I agree with you. And please forgive me if this bothers some of you, but you can read more comments about Nero's move at http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/05/03/13/009200.shtml?tid=185&tid=198&tid=106
Even at distrowatch there are comments about
NeroLinux. Sorry this thread is not going away just
yet.
Hope most of you like it and cheers for having a great
list and a great Fedora Community.
Best Regards,
Antonio A. Olivares
The one comment on Slashdot that I liked was that this is this.
Listen people, whenever a commercial application is ported over to Linux it is good for the effort to get Linux on the desktop. It doesn't matter if there are already command line tools out there that will do the same thing. So what? Yeah there are graphical front ends available for these command line tools available...but once again, so what? If they support linux, I have to support them. If you prefer FOSS applications, that's cool. But we need the commercial applications as well and this is one of the best commercial applications out there.......
Now I don't like paying for software if I don't have to but this is different than paying for a Linux application. What Nero wants is for me to pay for a Windows application to get a Linux app. This is what I fired a email off to Nero about.
I like the idea that more commercial software companies are looking at Linux but I think they are in for a rude awakening as there are many applications that are free that work very well and would be their direct competition.
Commercial applications will drive Linux farther onto the desktop and this is good no matter which way you look at it. :)
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Robin Laing
