On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 01:51:22PM -0500, Eliah Kagan wrote:

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> On Jan 5, 2008 12:53 PM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:

> > 4) FYI I think the wine project is counter-productive as it enables

> >    running non-free software on free software operating systems, and as

> >    such de-incentivates the creation of replacements.

> > 4.1) but it's free software and its authors have their own independence.

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> discouraging development of free replacements to software? What would

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> you need to know to actually know that Wine was ultimately

> counterproductive, or ultimately productive? When it comes right down

The world is not made of such extremes, fortunately. It is

counterproductive in so far as to promoting the development of Free

Software that replaces proprietary programs running on Windows.
If this is not clear to you, please help me be more clear.
Rui
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