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From: | Thomas Lord |
Subject: | Re: Release plans |
Date: | Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:34:45 -0700 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060808) |
Richard M. Stallman wrote:
2- Banning technical facilities like DLL from free software is likely to leave a clear advantage to proprietary software that use those facilities to provide the best technical solution. Refusing to support DLL does not give an advantage to non-free software. In particular, it does not give XRefractory an advantage over CEDET.
It gives an equal technical disadvantage to both but an economic favor to XRefractory. That economic favor to XRefractory is an example of why people invest in proprietary software entrepreneurship. The declaration of intent to refuse (aka "ban") helps give XRefractory a business plan (because the same ban makes life harder for less speculatively funded competitors like CEDET). -t
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