From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15695 invoked by uid 1002); 25 Nov 2003 06:41:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 5757 invoked from network); 25 Nov 2003 06:41:20 -0000 Message-ID: <3FC2F9DE.4050802@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 01:42:38 -0500 From: Stewart Honsberger Organization: Gentoo Linux User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031022 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <200311191114.25081.pauldv@gentoo.org> <200311211050.59578.jasonbstubbs@mailandnews.com> <8765hdu4zg.fsf@killr.ath.cx> <20031121183551.GE2221@gentoo.org> <87ptfk7uhu.fsf@killr.ath.cx> <20031122073212.GA1639@cerberus.oppresses.us> <87wu9pk9ph.fsf@killr.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <87wu9pk9ph.fsf@killr.ath.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo internal structure X-Archives-Salt: 22d82091-bfb4-41e5-81f3-fe9d5d5e4d76 X-Archives-Hash: e97bc336d135297c769a127c04e41762 Matthew Kennedy wrote: >>>I suppose I am dismayed that we are failing to promote free software >>>over proprietary software. >> >>We are promoting giving users a choice. What we are failing at is trying >>to force them into using free software. > > Proprietary software is not much of a "choice" to provide. If it does the job better than the free alternative, the OSS community hasn't offered a viable "choice" either. -- Stewart Honsberger Gentoo Developer http://www.snerk.org/ -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list