[pp.int.general] Why Free Software misses the point

[Percy Hatcherson]

Boris, after reading your article, I am just curious - if that is your
position, what are your reasons for supporting the Pirate movement?
I'm not trying to be rude here, but I'm just wondering, because it
seems to me the position you take is at odds with *part* (not all) of
what I've always known the Pirate movement to be about. Forgive my
ignorance.

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Owen Kahn <okahnus at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Andrew Norton <ktetch at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 5/12/2010 7:30 PM, Felipe Sanches wrote:
>> > * I am one of the (several) developers of Inkscape, a vector graphics
>> > free software tool;
>> > * I was at a conference and met a nice guy who draws comics using
>> > Inkscape;
>> > * He is not a programmer;
>> > * He wanted a feature;
>> > * I knew how to do it,
>> > * 2 days later the feature was incorporated into Inkscape.
>> >
>> > How much time would he have to wait for it if he had emailed Corel or
>> > Adobe?
>> >
>> > Results:
>> > * He is a happy non-coder user with a practical issue solved
>> > * I am a coder happy about being helpful to others
>> * software gets more complex and more bloat to pander to every
>> microgroup of users
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> Bloat and leanness depend much, much more on the leaders of a project than
> on whether it's proprietary or open source. Inkscape, to its credit, has
> always struck me as a reasonably lean program. This is simply not a critique
> that can be applied ham-handedly to entire classes of software.
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>> > This is a true story. You can see screenshots of the feature and his
>> > blogpost about it (in brazilian portuguese) here:
>> > http://nerdson.com/blog/connection-closed/
>> >
>> > Happy hacking,
>> > Felipe Sanches
>> >
>> >
>> >
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