> > > 2) using more free software is better than not running it at all
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> > > 3) incentivating usage of non-free software on free software operating
> > >    systems doesn't incentivate the creation of free software
> replacements
> >
> >       this is a word play. I know people who used OpenBSD for a while
> >       and stopped using it because a proprietary application they
> >       depended on was not available; and i know people who would use
> >       Linux/OpenBSD/whatever if emacs/gcc were not available and made
> >       so easy to use on Windows, because gcc is centric to their
> >       business and emacs integrates it so well.
>
> Now THIS is wordplay and pure speculation.
> If GCC wasn't available or made so easy to use, they'd merely use another
> one. The reason they don't use a Free Software operating system as nothing
> to do with the availability of GCC.
>
> Mostly its some stupid reason like managemente dictates usage of tool X
> which only works on Windows, for instance.


How is it that stating a fact (that this person knows someone who had made a
decision) a play on words and speculation?  If it helps to make it clear
that it is not speculation, I too know people who have made a conscious
decision not to use OpenBSD simply because a program that was absolutely
essential to getting something done (be it a personal need or a managerial
directive), and only X OS supported that, but not OpenBSD.