On Tuesday 16 December 2003 20:07, Mark Evans wrote:
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 05:02:33PM +0000, garry saddington wrote:
This sort of thing makes me so angry. Most people who promote proprietary software against free software are either unwilling to learn anything new, too lazy to learn anything new or plain just scared of their own inadequacies (ie. it took them long enough to learn what they now use, and scared in case they can't do it again). In any of these cases I would not like these sorts
If it were that simple then exactly the same argument would work for promoting OSS over proprietary software. Especially where you have OSS which is considerably more mature than a proprietary "equivalent"...
Yes you could use the reverse argument but it is proprietary software that is entrenched and not free software. i don't use free software because of the reasons stated above and i am sure that all on this list don't either. In my experience it has been that simple and working from the above baselines people then consruct more plausible arguments to keep proprietary software. regards garry
of people teaching, or advising those who teach, my children. An educated person with a closed mind is a very sad sort of individual.
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