Re: [Pan-users] Re: OT: freedomware vs... Was: Building Pan on Windows?

[Leslie Newell]

> That's what's nice about standard formats such as text/plain, text/html, 
> and image/jpeg.
>   

Indeed but what happens for example if you write a word processor that 
has more formatting options than HTML?

> Les sees that as not practical, he says so himself.  Free and open source 
> folks see anything else as not practical, because we take it as a given 
> that we have a right to access our own data using whatever app we wish, 
> that the freedom to make apps compatible with that data is a given, and 
> that the data is almost certainly valuable... to someone and therefore to 
> us... or <whoever> would not have bothered accumulating and storing it in 
> the first place.
>
> Thus the divide...  User empowerment vs. the user is simply serving at the 
> whim of the non-free application's master, in the context of my sig.
>   

My challenge to you is to come up with a business model where I can both 
eat and make my code open source. As I have mentioned before I am not 
anti open source at all but I also need to make an adequate income.

Les