Bad idea, bad for Free Software
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| swbrown Dec 07, 2006 9:59 AM EDT |
Making proprietary applications trivial to install and use reduces the pressure of having a Free alternative. This means less pressure on the vendor to create a Free version, less advocacy for others to support Free versions (e.g., media codecs), less programmers interested in trying to solve the problem with code, and less ego reward for doing so as fewer people will care strongly about it as they hadn't been feeling constrained by the lack. It might sound like a nice harmless perk to include, but it can set the community back decades. |
| tracyanne Dec 08, 2006 1:13 PM EDT |
Then write a free replacement for all that proprietory software, and make the free replacement easy to install. |
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