From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 02:05:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 02:05:14 -0500 Received: from ncc1701.cistron.net ([195.64.68.38]:26372 "EHLO ncc1701.cistron.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 02:05:05 -0500 From: "Rob Turk" Subject: Re: [opensource] Re: Petition Against Official Endorsement of BitKeeper by Linux Maintainers Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 08:06:31 +0100 Organization: Cistron Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20020307023302.GG32504@auctionwatch.com> X-Trace: ncc1701.cistron.net 1015484704 25800 213.46.44.164 (7 Mar 2002 07:05:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@cistron.nl X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Petro" wrote in message news:cistron.20020307023302.GG32504@auctionwatch.com... > > Not to mention, why should we have to conform to the ideology of > > the "free software" crowd ? > > 'Cause you can't be a rebel if you don't wear the right boots. > That's the whole difference between 'Software must be free (as in beer)' and 'Software must be good'. Embracing free software for the sake of rebelling against commercial software means you cut your options to choose for the best tool for the job. There's lots of good free tools out there. There's also a lot of good commercial software out there that in some cases does a better job than the free variants. Choose whatever gets you the best results. Rob