On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 23:55:00 -0700
Bruce Perens <bruce@???> wrote:

> > I agree, that 90% of the people are hapy with limited choice. But
> > as you
> already said, that field is served by apple and M$. No > need for us
> to follow down that road. Salvation is not on to be found on the
> highway :-)
>
> What you are saying is that you'd willingly leave the world to Apple
> and Microsoft rather than have more people run Free Software, if it
> means you have to deal with those messy other people. This isn't
> healthy for Free Software. Maybe not even healthy for you.

It's not about dealing with messy people, it's about dealing with
monolithically tangled software thumbing its nose at encapsulation and
interchangeable parts.

Other than that, your paragraph does indeed describe me. I said long
ago that if my only Linux or BSD choice is systemd, I'll move to Mac. I
don't use Free Software because it costs a hundred bucks less: I use it
because one way or another I'm technically and legally able to bend it
to my will. Others might not care about that, and that's fine, but I
care about it, and systemd means I can't technically bend it to my
will, making it non-free *for my purposes*. If I'm going to buy nonfree
(for my purposes) software, I might as well buy it from Apple, the guys
who do nonfree software right.

SteveT

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