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We won! (sorta...)
lazygamer:
I guess it's like a hunger strike, if everyone gave up their Wine for 2 years(and dualbooted), good things might happen.
The neat thing is, there is all sorts of games you can play on Linux with emulators, hours and hours and hours of 0ld$k00l!
flap:
rms commented that emulators like wine are a good thing because, if people must use proprietary windows software, they're better off using the stuff that they already have rather than pressuring software developers to develop the same non-free products for linux.
Calum:
rms says a lot of things.
personally i would be sceptical of a man who seems to get so passionate about free beer.
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seriously though, i have my opinions and he has his. what he says is based on what's best for the user, what i say is based on what's best for the community and, by extension, the user.
flap:
mm, that seems the wrong way around to me; it's the free beer idea he's trying to get people away from.
And actually what he wants is what's best for the community, while those who desire immediate convenience want what's best for the individual user. Not the other way around.
Calum:
so why's he saying people should refuse to receive .doc files in their email because they are a proprietary format and then turning a full 180 degrees round and saying people should use proprietary binary programs instead of pestering manufacturers and distributors to relax a little? are you really saying that having no native linux versions and everybody needing to use some alpha stage emulator is the best for the community? (maybe this community has had so much free beer that it can't see in front of its face).
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