<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Justin Dugger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jldugger@gmail.com">jldugger@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 3:38 AM, Luke Dashjr <<a href="mailto:luke@dashjr.org">luke@dashjr.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> This is completely irrelevant to anyone who doesn't run proprietary software,<br>
> which is the entire point of GNU/Linux.<br>
<br>
</div>No, the point is to write and run quality software; open source is the<br>
necessary condition to achieve those goals.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>The entire point of "GNU" and "Free Software" is to be ABLE to run only non-proprietary software if one chooses. For those of a different ideological orientation, the above paragraph applies. It is a similar disagreement to the one Objectivists have with Libertarians. <br>