Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 05, 2006 08:55 PM
OSS fanatics often amaze me; they'd just as soon die of thirst in the desert, than to drink a cup of water that wasn't "free".
Software is good because it is useful, not because its source is available.
Sure, write something better (if you can) that includes the source. But religion about the source being available or not is hardly relevant to the topic of this software's usefulness, or people's need to know of its existence.
Re:Where I stopped reading...
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 05, 2006 08:55 PMSoftware is good because it is useful, not because its source is available.
Sure, write something better (if you can) that includes the source. But religion about the source being available or not is hardly relevant to the topic of this software's usefulness, or people's need to know of its existence.
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