Re: Libraries disappearing from compat-libstdc++-296

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Kam Leo <kam.leo <at> gmail.com> writes:
> First, do not confuse "Free" with "Open". They are not the same.

Indeed, they're not. "Free Software" is the correct term:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
And Free Software it's about freedom, not price.

> Let's not stretch advocacy to ridiculous levels. Open source has
> limits. It's nice to have the source code. However, the source code
> does no good if you have the neither the resources and/or the skills
> to do something with it.

How hard is it to run "make"? Often just recompiling is enough to make the 
software work on a current distribution. And if it does not build, fixing it is 
often not rocket science either.

        Kevin Kofler

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