Re: Should the FSF back monopolisation by M$?

[David Kastrup]

Tarquin Mills <accus@use.net> writes:

> In message <85r73ol4zk.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
>           David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Tarquin Mills <accus@use.net> writes:
>> 
>> > Should the FSF back complete monopolisation by Microsoft, or should
>> > it be against, as it aims to produce an operating system written in
>> > 100% free software code?
>> 
>> It does neither mean that I back all my neighbors or am against all of
>> them if I happen not to try bedding them.
>> 
>> Microsoft is by and large irrelevant to free software as long as
>> they don't indulge in business practices that harm free software,
>> like pressuring vendors into producing hardware that is incapable
>> of running it.
>
> We are all part of the world and connected to each other, the Linux
> magazines cannot exist without readers and adverts, the same is true
> of other Linux companies including distros.

So what?  Free software existed before Linux, and certainly before
"the Linux magazines" and their "readers and adverts".  The majority
of free software _developers_ whose work gets collected in "distros"
is not employed by Linux companies.  And Linux companies don't compete
in that segment of the market that Microsoft is monopolizing, anyway.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum