On 6 Feb 2010 at 11:42, Tony Duell wrote:
That's free as in beer, not as in speech. And my
experience is that I
spend far too long getting software to work on my hardware if I don't
have the soruces.
devices. And Windows or Linux PCs aren't
exactly uncommon.
That is not uiversally true.
I don't even know how to respond to this one on my 2-year old,
freecycled P4 system that I'm sitting in front of. Doubtless it
contains some devices that were developed using the "free beer"
tools, but if you don't have the source, it must not be any good.
So I won't bother.
--Chuck