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Not 100% sureNot 100% surePosted Dec 20, 2007 16:00 UTC (Thu) by paulj (subscriber, #341)In reply to: Not 100% sure by mingo Parent article: Insufficiently free?
Less than 1% of Linux users use a distribution that Richard approves of, still FOSS is prosperous. ... By Richard's argument, it's better to develop and use GNU Bash on OSX than it is to use a single piece of unfree software on Linux, But that's nothing to do with RMS' position and his justification for it, which you yourself quoted: People are unlikely to switch to a non-free operating system merely because a free program runs on it. His position is whether non-free software should be recommended, not whether FOSS platforms can be successful without RMS' approval (note that RMS in that thread posted that he does indeed approve of OpenBSD), nor whether it is better to develop on unfree platforms. On these new, latter two points, you appear to be attacking a straw-man, rather than RMS' position which is the subject of this article. (Feel free to point me to posts that show you're not attacking a strawman). Developers of FOSS working on other platforms are actively harmful to Linux and other FOSS projects - all the network effects are missing. I'd be one such a developer, so I have to disagree with your assertion that I'm harmful to FOSS generally. I'll have to agree to disagree with you on a Linux monoculture being good for FOSS.
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