Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2008 mails)

[Jim Henderson <hendersj@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:45:45 -0600, L. V. Lammert wrote:

> Actually, Richard Stallman has been saying that for many decades;
> unfortunately, he does not operate in a world with cost accounting and
> family members.
>
> For those of us that do, we have to justify our actions and
> recommendations, and, quite frankly, *sometimes* Free Software doesn't
> make the cut, so we have to make it work the best we can.

Well said, better said than I would've said.

Free Software isn't the only hammer in the IT toolbox.  I'll take, for 
example, Microsoft Mappoint over any of the OSS alternatives out there 
today.  Until such time as an application in the OSS world surpasses what 
Mappoint provides, it will continue to be the best application for what 
it does.

And it *really* pains me to say that Microsoft has the best solution for 
any need.  I've been mostly MS-free for 10+ years now, have XP and 2K in 
VMs for those rare occasions I need it, and my main system at home came 
with Vista Home Pro which I think I've booted about 3 times because the 
VM wouldn't do what I needed.

I'm no MS fanboy, quite the opposite.  But I also have worked in IT for a 
long time and recognise there is a place for proprietary software, just 
as there's a place for OSS software.  And frequently those places overlap 
- but they don't always.

Jim
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