On 03/10/2010 10:42 AM, Rob wrote:
While it may be that most of the lines of code written in the world will never be free, most of it also has free-as-in-freedom alternatives. Our choice as free software enthusiasts is to choose the free alternatives and, as you suggest, skip the proprietary stuff. Pan is a great example of that; my partner and I used Forte Agent for years, I switched to Linux and tried to make Agent play nice under Wine, then we both switched to Pan and he switched to Linux too.
Same here, except that I didn't bother with Wine, having heard that Agent didn't play too well with it. I've used proprietary software, and would have no problem paying for Linux software if it did what I wanted and there wasn't an appropriate free alternative. I use Linux not because it's free, but because I think it's better, and if you like how Windows works, I'm not going to try to force you to change.
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