I am neither planning nor recommending to boycott GNU or FSF. I also drive German and Japanese cars.<div><br></div><div>I AM planning to maintain alternatives to them - that is, while my attitude in the past was to find ways to use open source solutions even if it meant, often, spending days fixing bugs and glitches (using third party patches or instructions), I am now going to use MS or Apple solutions instead. Specifically, I will use Skype, VMWare and VirtualBox on Win7, iTunes on Win7/OS-X, etc. instead of compiling every other week on Linux.</div>
<div><br></div><div>When it comes to advocacy, when in the past I was advocating a move to OSS products, in the future I would advocate for using products that can work with both MS and Linux, or using heterogeneous systems.</div>
<div><br></div><div>As far as I am concerned, OSS is no longer future-proof, and has to be only a of my product mix, not the only one.</div><div><br></div><div>Z.</div><div><br></div><div>PS to the idiots who respond to others' views with 'nobody cares what you do', nobody gives a hoot what you do or think either (I am not talking about my personal not giving a shit - the world does not really care about 15 geeks arguing about the merits of open source compilers, which language is better perl or ada, or a bunch of things where the opinions are distinctions without a difference). </div>
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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">2011/6/12 Udi Finkelstein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Linux-IL@udif.com" target="_blank">Linux-IL@udif.com</a>></span><br></div><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">The number of free software packages where RMS is involved, or even was ever involved, is very small compared to the whole open software universe.<br>Even if you decide to boycott the entire GNU projectyou stll have tons of free software that is not FSF-related.<br>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>I disagree. Richard Stallman in the founder of the GNU project and the GPL. About half of all open source software is licenses as GPL. The Linux operating system with all its distributions, GCC complier and many other open source software exist because of Richard Stallman's contributions. I don't recommend anyone to boycott GNU or the FSF.</div>
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