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Re: Excellent and enlightening speech!
by Tapio Kautto on Tuesday 22/Jan/2008, @05:52

Amen.

Perhaps some people like to troll or just have their head up in their **s, but I'll repeat my opinion anyway.

It's not realistic to think that all applications and libraries would be open source. I'd really love if they would, but it's not going to happen. Many important applications will be proprietary, and we just have to accept that.

Why Firefox is popular? It's a great application, there's a need for it but also because it supports proprietary plugins. It offers more complete user experience than it would offer without supporting for them. Many people would just try it and abandon it because they would like to see the evil content that's not open.

Why OpenOffice.org? Because it supports evil operating systems and evil document formats.

We need more and more open source implementations, but we also need to take closed apps and plugins into account (I just can't say 'support' because it would feel bad to say so as an open source person)

Having the best platform will draw attention from commercial entities, this means more companies paying for people to work on KDE. That will benefit as all, those that have aggressive attitude towards proprietary vendors as well as those of us that accept the reality.

TK.

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Re: Excellent and enlightening speech!
by ofcourse on Tuesday 22/Jan/2008, @13:10

Yes.. and change the KDE slogan to:
"don't be free..."

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