Re: Icon designer wanted (Aquamacs Emacs)

[Tim McNamara]

"Luis O. Silva" <l.o.silva@mail.ru> writes:

> Hi Tim,
>
> On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 15:09:44 -0600, Tim McNamara writes:
>
>    TM> Except that many of the free tools are not superior to the
>    TM> proprietary ones in practice.  And without attending to that,
>    TM> free software risks being nothing more than a pedantic,
>    TM> philosophical stance and being nothing other than marginal.
>
> First of all I apologize for quoting your post partially. In my
> opinion the other parts have already been addressed by David.
>
> I just add a few lines about the above-quoted text, about the
> necessity for developers to address the "disadvantges" of free
> software with respect to proprietary.
>
> Free software is developing by itself or I might say it's undergoing
> evolution like a living creature. It's growing and getting
> better. This process will never stop[1] and is, in some sense,
> autonomous.  In contrast, commodities are done to be sold. Here
> developers bow to the market.
>
> The conclusion about better development, then, can be easily be
> drawn.
>
> Footnotes: [1] unless free thinking and free exchange of information
> become prohibited. That's why I said (see my previous post) that
> your understanding of freedom is far more important than financial
> support. That's why I'm writing this lines.

Thank you, Luis.