[ILUG] games.linux.ie

[Paul J Collins]

>>>>> "DM" == David Murphy <drjolt+ilug at redbrick.dcu.ie> writes:

    DM> Quoting <6uy9uylkwp.fsf at zork.zork.net>
    DM> by Paul J Collins <sneakums at zork.net>:

    >> Requiring people to have proprietary Windows software to use a
    >> service provided by the Irish Linux Users' Group strikes me as
    >> nothing short of idiocy.
    DM> Why? 

To quote the Master: "The very act of asking is its own reply."

    >> Requiring proprietary Linux software is quite bad enough.
    DM> Now that you mention it, I don't see how this harms linux.

Since most proprietary Linux software is built only for Intel, it
harms it a great deal.  For every piece of no-source software that
some company releases for Linux, an army of Sparc, Alpha, ARM and
PowerPC becomes marginally less useful.

Until the free software competitior is completed of course.

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