> > > 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.