From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim McNamara Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Icon designer wanted (Aquamacs Emacs) Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 23:01:51 -0600 Organization: ipHouse - Welcome Home! Message-ID: References: <54321A2A-3F36-4416-B473-49AC11FF057F@gmail.com> <853bk5gwa8.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <792D87C1-B9A9-495E-9335-7139845D1CB0@gmail.com> <85fyo4zvei.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87sls47lvd.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> <85wthftsme.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1136610256 30367 80.91.229.2 (7 Jan 2006 05:04:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 05:04:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 07 06:04:15 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ev6FR-000324-GW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jan 2006 06:04:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ev6HF-0004Xf-QS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jan 2006 00:06:05 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!news.glorb.com!green.octanews.net!news-out.octanews.net!news-1.mpls.iphouse.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:RXvW5ZN2VdNqE90ZDZkV5wxkT7E= Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 06 Jan 2006 23:01:51 CST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 06646809.newsreader.iphouse.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=me[L>83`DH1IWSh8S[cm:@8]TdIggef@e7N90MVdmW\KR_J0G`Xl Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@iphouse.net Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:136903 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:32522 Archived-At: "Luis O. Silva" writes: > Hi Tim, > > On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 15:09:44 -0600, Tim McNamara writes: > > TM> Except that many of the free tools are not superior to the > TM> proprietary ones in practice. And without attending to that, > TM> free software risks being nothing more than a pedantic, > TM> philosophical stance and being nothing other than marginal. > > First of all I apologize for quoting your post partially. In my > opinion the other parts have already been addressed by David. > > I just add a few lines about the above-quoted text, about the > necessity for developers to address the "disadvantges" of free > software with respect to proprietary. > > Free software is developing by itself or I might say it's undergoing > evolution like a living creature. It's growing and getting > better. This process will never stop[1] and is, in some sense, > autonomous. In contrast, commodities are done to be sold. Here > developers bow to the market. > > The conclusion about better development, then, can be easily be > drawn. > > Footnotes: [1] unless free thinking and free exchange of information > become prohibited. That's why I said (see my previous post) that > your understanding of freedom is far more important than financial > support. That's why I'm writing this lines. Thank you, Luis.