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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    [kde-promo] Re:  Fwd: Knoppix, KDE
From:       Neil Stevens <neil () qualityassistant ! com>
Date:       2003-05-14 23:09:32
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On Wednesday May 14, 2003 04:04, Andreas Pour wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The purity-practical debate is one that will live long.  However, I
> think nobody can really satsify the purity test.  For example, consider
> the software that runs (1) your computers' BIOS; (2) various controllers
> and subsystems, including SCSI; (3) cell phones; (4) cars; (5) many
> other electronic devices; etc.  Unless you refuse to use a computer
> using AWARD BIOS, for example, or to drive a car, or fly on an airplane,
> unless it uses completely Free Software, you have already compromised.

Don't change the subject.  The issue here is what software should be 
distributed as KDE promotional material.

> The question is always, compromise how much?  And once you realize that,
> the debate becomes more meaningful.  And you see that, like everything
> else, it involves line-drawing.

If you're going to speak for others, you have no business compromising 
their principles.

- -- 
Neil Stevens - neil@qualityassistant.com
"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the
sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him
for the same act as the destroyer of liberty." -- Abraham Lincoln
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