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Converting Users to Open Source- Why Do You Care?
mack knife asks: "Here's a question for Slashdot readers: Why do you care what web browser/email client/etc people use? What do you care if Firefox catches on or not? Why do some people feel the need to convert others to their pet applications? Personally, I am a convert to Firefox/Thunderbird, but I understand that many users are happy with their Microsoft products; I'll mention what I use and why, but I won't harangue them on their apps' shortcomings, nor will I try to push an unfamiliar open source app on someone who is more comfortable with a 'mainstream' product. Some open-source proponents can be quite obnoxious about this, and I'm interested to hear why it is taken so seriously."
Meanwhile you can stop with the "one brown guy to another" crap and actually earn some money--after all that's what you are here for? Right?
"Doing what i can, with what i have." ~ Burt Gummer
You obviously have no core priciples. Either that, or you are a coward. Intellectual property is a detriment to our society, and it is complacence from cowards like you that allows this evil to continue. It's people like you that looked the other way when the trains took the Jews away. You make me sick.