Skype telephone giveaway- but not for Linux users

[manchicken]

On Wednesday 13 June 2007 08:32:47 Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 June 2007, manchicken wrote:
> > > It's an atrocity that a software company will not let you modify and
> > > redistribute their code?
> >
> > Restricting freedom for the sake of profit is an atrocity.
>
> You've got to be kidding!   What planet do you live on?
>
> So if a drug company spends years and millions if not billions on
> developing a new wonder drug,  they should just give it away?
>
> Wow, whatta concept.

You're intentionally missing the point.  It's not about giving things away, 
it's about not restricting people.

This practice of "competition" is inhibiting our ability to develop and 
distribute the software that we want in the manner we want to do so.  We'd 
love to distribute DVD players, but thanks to proprietary codecs we're not 
able to.  We'd love to have free software 3D drivers for video cards so that 
we can reliably use compositing and develop 3D video games, but thanks to 
this competition that you are praising these things are not possible right 
now.

You're using flawwed arguments to support unjust practices.

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