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Re: Kongrats KDE! Next up: "KOffice replaces Hancom"
by Scott on Tuesday 15/Jan/2002, @18:11

I really don't see this as a troll. In fact I think that this attitude is essential for me continue to be interested in Linux.

I use Open Source / Free Software because I think it's a good thing--that's why I develop it too. I don't just use Unix, I use GNU/Linux because I like being able to hack on the things that I use. I'm glad that KDE is getting some attention out of this, but I wouldn't really be that excited if it were an announcement like "120,000 computer have switched to Solaris." If really don't see a lot of reason to be excited about a group switching from relying on one proprietary system to another. I think a lot of the excitement around this has mostly just been spite towards Microsoft.

So, some clarification: I don't hate closed source software, companies or people including Hancom, theKompany, Trolltech, Sun or Microsoft. I just don't see anything special about people relying on closed source software. That's what they've been doing for the last 40 years. In fact I think that all of these companies have done some good things, including making some great contributions to Open Source.

I guess I don't want to see Linux become "just another platform." Linux is defined by its idealogical roots and I hope it sticks to those. Linux isn't as much a commercial competitor to Windows as it is an idealogical competitor and I think the latter is more important. It seems that this recent event was mostly a commercial win for Linux. So hopefully this will cause plurality in the desktop market, but even more I hope that it's a stepping stone to moving to a truely Free platform.

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Re: Kongrats KDE! Next up: "KOffice replaces Hancom"
by David on Wednesday 16/Jan/2002, @07:23

Sure the office software has changed from one non-free system to another, but at least the OS has made the switch.

View it as a stepping stone. Without this step they would probably never consider going for a completely free system.

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Re: Kongrats KDE! Next up: "KOffice replaces Hancom"
by KDEUser on Wednesday 16/Jan/2002, @09:16

Like I said you FSF people sure are clever little TROLLS.

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Re: Kongrats KDE! Next up: "KOffice replaces Hancom"
by Desktop maniac on Wednesday 16/Jan/2002, @19:33

Blah, blah blah you Richard Stallman Limmings all sound the same. Group think is all ways a bad thing. Time to group up people and think out side the box. Going from one slavery to another is not an answer. Just ask the Russians circa 1920s.

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Re: Kongrats KDE! Next up: "KOffice replaces Hancom"
by Scott on Wednesday 16/Jan/2002, @20:15

So by "one slavery to another" you mean closed source to closed source, right?

Actually I'm not really a FSF guy--not completely anyway. I'm somewhere inbetween OSI and FSF.

I think closed source software could potentially be acceptable, but I don't want to deal with it and really don't care about it. So I guess I have a passive dislike for proprietary software--I just don't care about it--whereas the FSF has an active dislike.

Oh, and another point. Groups that think alike are great. Groups that collectively don't think are bad.

Methinks too many Linux newbies have forgotten that Linux isn't just another platform (and ignore why Linux exists in the firstplace). And a couple of them have decided to troll here [slaps own hand for responding to trolls].

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Re: Kongrats KDE! Next up: "KOffice replaces Hancom"
by Desktop maniac on Thursday 17/Jan/2002, @09:16

Always closed source is slavery and always open is also slavery. We need choice not some fanacics forced software utopia.

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