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Re: Commercial code is better: Cedega VS Wine
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Re: Commercial code is better: Cedega VS Wine |
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Tue, 07 Mar 2006 18:58:06 -0700 |
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Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) |
On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 16:05:39 -0800, Karen Hill wrote:
> Tried running a modern game in Cedega and it worked. In Wine it seg
> faulted. Cedega is a commercial closed source port of Wine. Wine is
> free.
>
> Commercial for profit developers create software that works better in
> Linux than unpaid developers. The only reason the Linux kernel is even
> halfway decent for a _unix_ system is because of Redhat. Redhat
> charges an arm + leg for their Distro to pay the top guys like Tom Lane
> to work on Postgres and Alan Cox to work on Linux.
>
> Remember XEmacs VS Emacs? Stallman was almost crying because the
> XEmacs team was backed by a commercial venture and the old emacs could
> barely keep up. XEmacs cost about a million dollars to create. In
> some of the mailing lists, stallman admitted that he couldn't even
> understand some of the code because it was so advanced and he feared
> emacs would fall really behind.
>
> Why try to fight this reality? Why not admit "Free" software is
> impossible? The best software is commercial where people vote with
> their wallets.
>
> Until there is a Free Doctors Foundation, Free Food Foundation, Free
> Car Foundation, and Free Housing Foundation the will not be a quailty
> free software product that is not restricted by commercial interests.
> Redhat does not allow you to use their distro for free. You must
> modify all logos etc. For the price of one year of Redhat service you
> could buy Windows 2003 Server which is supported for 7 years.
Right. All commercial software is better than all free software. And the
immediate corollary is that the more expensive the software, the better it
is.
- Commercial code is better: Cedega VS Wine, Karen Hill, 2006/03/07
- Re: Commercial code is better: Cedega VS Wine, Peter, 2006/03/07
- Re: Commercial code is better: Cedega VS Wine,
ray <=
- Re: Commercial code is better: Cedega VS Wine, Kelsey Bjarnason, 2006/03/08
- Re: Commercial code is better: Cedega VS Wine, billwg, 2006/03/08
- Re: Commercial code is better: Cedega VS Wine, B Gruff, 2006/03/08
- Re: Commercial code is better: Cedega VS Wine, chrisv, 2006/03/08
- Re: Commercial code is better: Cedega VS Wine, Kelsey Bjarnason, 2006/03/08
- Re: Commercial code is better: Cedega VS Wine, billwg, 2006/03/09