On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 10:31 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > I like open source, but it should be a matter of choice whether you > give your work away or not. We need a way to let them keep that > freedom of choice while still being able to use their product. They > are going to a great effort trying to give away free binaries yet > the OS distribution continues to make it difficult for them. ---- I thought that commitment to open source and not distributing software with restrictive licensing to be a virtue. That puts pressure on those who want to come to the dance to dress according to the rules. I don't want to dis on Adobe/Real Networks/nVidia/ATI/Sun et al. They have every right to hold on to their source and only distribute binaries for free as they wish, they just don't get included with source only distributions. If third party efforts exist to script the download and install of these binary only distributions to make life easier for users, then I am all for it but the distribution itself isn't going to bother with it. I sort of like the idea of having users take the extra efforts to get the binary only software installed so they at least recognize that there is a distinction. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
