Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 16, 2004 04:11 AM
That is the point. The work on a platform is often worth a very significant multiple of the platform itself. Any application on a non-free platform is more or less hostage of the will of the platform owner and his fate. For very good reasons, many of the free software products are platforms, e.g. the OS, to name just one. It is all a very, very economic decision. It is ways cheaper to develop a free (libre) platform and then use it but to use a cheap, but only beer-free one and loose you investment in the end.
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Re:No, No, No, and NO!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 16, 2004 04:11 AM#