FOSS: time to stop the navel-gazing
Discussions about free and open source software can arouse strong emotions. That's something I've known for many years but one often tends to forget these things in the rush of daily life.
It comes back to you in a flash when someone reacts in a totally unbalanced way to something you've written or said, a totally harmless comment that should be absolutely inoffensive when considered logically.
But logic rarely comes into the picture when people feel that you are criticising the free and open source community and anything associated with it.
Earlier this week, I wrote about the decision taken by the parent company of Ubuntu, Canonical, to sell common multimedia codecs instead of providing them as it has done so far. In logical terms, if one has to buy something to provide a distribution with basic functionality then the distribution has become commercial.
And I don't know of anyone who would consider a Linux distribution complete unless he or she can use it to watch a DVD, or play an MP3 or a Windows media file.
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