[scribus] Is Linux/Scribus viable? (was New Linux User...)

[John Beardmore]

John Brown wrote:
> John Beardmore wrote:
>> John Brown wrote:
>>> Jan Schrewe wrote:
>>>> John Brown schrieb am Sonntag, 10. August 2008:
>>>>> Gregory Pittman wrote:

>>> I just wish
>>> that more people would be honest and admit that they would be rather less
>>> interested in "free speech" if they had to pay commercial prices for it.
>> But there isn't an inherent material / financial cost to speaking. There
>> is to making beer.
> 
> Right. I meant to write "free software", no "free beer". If they had to pay for
> "free software", they would not be so enthusiastic, and would immediately
> scurry off in search of a free-as-in-free-beer alternative.

But it wouldn't be free then would it ?


>>> Those
>>> dishonest people betray themselves by their constant references to the evil M$.
>> I'm not sure about that. I wouldn't mind paying MS for those products
>> that I wanted if I wanted them. What I do mind is attempts to distort
>> and monopolise markets through the manipulation of other vendors, covert
>> APIs, and closed 'standards'.
> 
> OK. If they are really objecting to those things, why the $ in M$?
> Because money (or more accurately, the love of it) is the root of all
> evil.

Because the market is distorted etc in the interest of the mighty $ of 
course.

I used to have a sig which said something about

     Microsoft Money and Monopoly


I didn't say MS were evil, though I don't think they are great 
ethically, but I didn't doubt BGs financial instincts.


Cheers, J/.
-- 
John Beardmore, MSc EDM (Open), B.A. Chem (Oxon), CMIOSH, AIEMA, MEI
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