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

[Joe Zeff]

On 03/10/2010 10:42 AM, Rob wrote:
> While it may be that most of the lines of code written in the world will
> never be free, most of it also has free-as-in-freedom alternatives.  Our
> choice as free software enthusiasts is to choose the free alternatives and,
> as you suggest, skip the proprietary stuff.  Pan is a great example of
> that; my partner and I used Forte Agent for years, I switched to Linux and
> tried to make Agent play nice under Wine, then we both switched to Pan and
> he switched to Linux too.

Same here, except that I didn't bother with Wine, having heard that 
Agent didn't play too well with it.  I've used proprietary software, and 
would have no problem paying for Linux software if it did what I wanted 
and there wasn't an appropriate free alternative.  I use Linux not 
because it's free, but because I think it's better, and if you like how 
Windows works, I'm not going to try to force you to change.