Re: Free software, proprietary software and Stalin

[Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 09:18:53AM -0800, Arun Sharma wrote:
> 
> I think people who work for companies that make and use proprietary
> software during the day and argue for GNU ideals by night are
> hypocrites. 

Since that's a sweeping statment, perhaps I should explain it better.

I advocate BSD software and commercial software where appropriate, but
I use GNU software too. Does that make me a hypocrite ? I believe no,
because neither BSD nor MS EULA say don't use GNU software with them.

GNU ideology explicitly advocates destroying commercial software. This
is where the hypocrisy comes in.

On second thoughts, hypocrisy is too strong a word - I should've used
contradiction.

	-Arun