On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 02:51 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Richard Stallman believes that commercial software with trade secrets > in them are somehow morally wrong, and he set out to build a system > which would not have and could not have any trade secrets in it. . From a certain point of view, I kind of agree with the sentiment. It certainly is a pain having to keep Lotus on a system, and Word, and several others, because you have to cope with other people's documents that don't work well in your preferred application. So from a point of view of operability, I dislike trade secrets in the tools I work with. On the other hand, I don't really care about knowing how software works in a game I've played, or the set-top digital TV box, etc. I find his views a bit extremist, even if I agree with some of them. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
