Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 04, 2004 02:05 AM
As much as I like the Open Source movement, and want it to succeed, I hate listening to the zealots out there who insist that proprietary code is a crime against humanity. This socialist nonsense is getting real old real fast.
As I said on a previous occasion, at the end of the day, it just has to work. Making me jump through hoops to get my nVidia card to work, for example, just to please someone else's ideals, is just plain wrong! Linux developers can make better drivers? Good, let them prove it!
If someone wants to build a for-sale distro that has one or two proprietary pieces that I need to make my life easier, something I am willing to pay for, then this is a good thing!
I want choices! Open Source gives me that choice, but I absolutely refuse to "toe the line" when zealots say I should be a purist. I refuse to live my life by someone else's standards. I insist on using the best combination of software for my needs. Until someone in the Open Source community comes up with a satisfactory replacement (i.e., one that works just as well or better than the proprietary) for the nVidia drivers and the Yast utilities of the world, then I will continue to use what works. It's called competition, and it's the reason Linux is so hot right now, not the bluster of proprietary-is-evil proponents.
Besides, isn't silencing the competition, instead of meeting it fair and square in the marketplace, something companies like Microsoft and SCO do?
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Re:SuSE is Not Open Source Friendly
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 04, 2004 02:05 AMAs I said on a previous occasion, at the end of the day, it just has to work. Making me jump through hoops to get my nVidia card to work, for example, just to please someone else's ideals, is just plain wrong! Linux developers can make better drivers? Good, let them prove it!
If someone wants to build a for-sale distro that has one or two proprietary pieces that I need to make my life easier, something I am willing to pay for, then this is a good thing!
I want choices! Open Source gives me that choice, but I absolutely refuse to "toe the line" when zealots say I should be a purist. I refuse to live my life by someone else's standards. I insist on using the best combination of software for my needs. Until someone in the Open Source community comes up with a satisfactory replacement (i.e., one that works just as well or better than the proprietary) for the nVidia drivers and the Yast utilities of the world, then I will continue to use what works. It's called competition, and it's the reason Linux is so hot right now, not the bluster of proprietary-is-evil proponents.
Besides, isn't silencing the competition, instead of meeting it fair and square in the marketplace, something companies like Microsoft and SCO do?
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