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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Re:  Fwd: Knoppix, KDE
From:       Andreas Pour <pour () mieterra ! com>
Date:       2003-05-14 23:13:59
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Neil Stevens wrote:
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> On Wednesday May 14, 2003 04:04, Andreas Pour wrote:
> > Hi,
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> > 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.

Sorry, you apparently do not understand the point.
 
> > 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.

Nobody's speaking for anyone else; however, you do seem to try to impose your
will on everyone else, which I find quite annoying actually.

Ciao,

Dre
 
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