The Hurd

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 09:00:31AM -0500, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 02:11:05PM +0100, Eneko Lacunza wrote:
> > 	I don't think so. Most Linux users talk about and understand what Free
> > Software is and means.
> 
> Maybe they do (although I doubt it), most of them don't share the
> vision.  Most use it because "it works" and "is gratis", not because
> it is "free software".

Third reason - "availability of sources" is very important issue for
majority of programmers who use GNU/Linux.

I see that they usually strongly prefer gratis proprietary software
with sources to gratis proprietary software without sources.