Andreas Hanke wrote:
[...] And it's still often considered to be "more free" or "more open", which I tend to find rather unfair sometimes.
Is this really what the end user is worried about? I believe that the typical end user just wants to install a Linux distribution with full support for all the hardware. I don't think that many users care whether their modem works because of an open source driver or because of a closed source driver. It should just work. And I don't believe that many users want to install a pure open source system without Flash Player, Acrobat Reader, Java, etc. From my point of view, many people don't care about open source as long as they can get something for free (free = no money) and it works for them. That's the experience I've made over the last couple of years. I didn't come across any SUSE 10.1 installation without at least some packages of CD 6... We should not discuss the advantages of open source, I am sure we here on this mailing list are all aware of it. But we shouldn't forget the other side of the story. Cheers, Th. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org