Rahul Sundaram wrote:
The distinction between commercial and FOSS is a false one. You mean
proprietary or non-free software. There is a lot of commercial FOSS
applications and products available today.
I didn't mean to imply that... But, it is also unfair to automatically
label free (as in no cost) proprietary software as "bad".
Neither offers guarantees but Free software offers more choice and
flexibility if a vendor decides to cut off support for a product.
And a good vendor won't do that.
I wish you wouldn't use the term "Free Software" as it is open to
interpretation of what one means by "Free".
>> This is apart from the legal issues involved in combining non-free
>> modules and the Linux kernel for a distribution.
>
> I must have missed that part of the discussion. I didn't notice it
> was part
> of the discussion that nvidia drivers or ATI drivers be made part of a
> distro.
Read back. That indeed is a major thrust of the discussion.
Too many tangents.