Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 26th Aug 2009 22:23 UTC
When Windows Vista was launched, the Free Software Foundation started its BadVista campaign, which was aimed at informing users about what the FSF considered user-restrictive features in Vista. Luckily for the FSF, Vista didn't really need a bad-mouthing campaign to fail. Now that Windows 7 is receiving a lot of positive press, the FSF dusted off the BadVista drum, and gave it a fresh coat of paint.
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"Furthermore proprietary software begets open source software. Stallman wouldn't have been able to write his gcc compiler or work on cloning Unix if there wasn't a mountain of proprietary software available to him."
Actually, it's the other way around. Proprietary software didn't really exist, to any major extent, before the '80's. Prior to that, there was no real market for it. Most software was essentially free, used only to run the hardware that the big vendors sold for big bucks.
And the proprietary software market could not have happened without the foundation laid by the previous free software.
And I'm not saying proprietary software is bad. I earn my living working for a proprietary software company.