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At Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:28:44 -0800, Karen Coyle <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Darrell Eifert wrote: > > There are commercial options from Groovix or Userful, but that pretty > > much defeats the practical goal of lowering IT costs, or the > > ideological goal of moving to free and open-source applications. > > > > I have a hard time considering "free" (as in "not paying for") as > ideological. If linux is a good desktop, the "freeness" is icing on the > cake. (And it's only free as in the purchase price; you still pay in > some way to maintain it.) If you need to purchase apps to make your > library work as it should, then you should budget for that. I think we > need to see "free" and "open source" as two different properties that > MAY intersect but do not necessarily intersect. > > kc > (who prefers linux to windows, and is looking forward to being able to > purchase my favorite apps for linux as they become available) I think that Darrell probably meant ‘free’ in the GNU sense: <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html> best, Erik