one thing i find anoying is

[Andrew Zajac]

On 5/3/06, Michael T. Richter <ttmrichter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I know just how likely it is that a small company is going to give away
> its competitive edge to a bunch of what amounts to anti-commerce communists.
>


Let the market decide.  I will not subscribe to an ISP that requires me to
run a windows-only dialer application to connect a modem to the internet.
There is no competitive edge to making non-windows users lives difficult.

I see your point, but I think it only really applies to a very small
percentage of the applications that some companies "support" when you buy
something with the name of an OS written on the box.



Give these people a business case -- and by "business case" I mean "orders
> in the range of millions" and they might just start seeing a competitive
> advantage in releasing their source.  But with Linux being the fringe market
> it is now, it's simply not worth it.
>


That's why we're here, no?



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