<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 13/02/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Daniel Watkins</b> <<a href="mailto:D.M.Watkins@warwick.ac.uk">D.M.Watkins@warwick.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
In addition, it doesn't do to be snooty about who we decide to ask to<br>Free their drivers. Any Free drivers are a win for the momentum of the<br>Free software movement.<br><br></blockquote></div><br>Snooty??!!! <br>
<br>Excellent argument - you may just have won me round to your point of view there.<br><br>Now if I were in a mind to do so, I might counter the word "snooty" with "ignorant", and perhaps "foolish" & "myopic"
<br><br>But I won't.<br><br>How's this?<br><br>2 points:-<br>1. Why do you want to increase the profits of a company that uses software patents to extort cash? Particularly given the threat that software patents pose to Free Software.
<br><br>2. Persuading Kodak to open source their drivers is not a "win for the Free Software movement" as you so "snootily" put it. It's begging for support from some company that has no respect for its users.
<br><br>How much of *your* work have you open sourced?<br>