On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 19:39:51 -0600 Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * John Griffiths ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > >And that fish is relevant to "free" vs "closed" software exactly how? > > > > Because the developers were free to put it in > > > > and you are free to take it out if you care enough > > > > you're not free to decide the developers priorities for them > > > > only for yourself. > > Oh, I see. "Free" as in "free to put useless bloat in". This isn't > what people usually mean by "free software" (FVO "people" not > including gnome developers and those who don't think the rain is wet).
Free as in speech: free to write/code what you want on your own time. As another post said: you have the source; it's GPL; if you don't like bloat, rip it out. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | ! Great Inventors of our time: | ! Al Gore -> Internet | ! Sun Microsystems -> Clusters | +------------------------------------------------------------+
