RMS, Free software and the Ubuntu CDs

[Alexander Skwar]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 16:18 +0800, Michael T. Richter wrote:

>> Well it was out if interests of fairness that I said post-alpha.  If
>> you think the line's drawn too early still, by all means take any code
>> labelled post-beta.  I still think the vast majority of it will be
>> inferior to similar commercial offerings.  The only real exception is
>> in programming languages, etc.  The free ones tend to rock in
>> comparison to commercial offerings.  Oddly enough.
> 
> I do get your meaning - compare evince to acroread for a good example.

You mean, for an example where the commercial program is very much
crappy or doesn't add anything in comparison to the FLOSS solution?
So you wanted to give an example which contradicts what Michael
wrote?

Alexander Skwar
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