Postby hjalle » Sun Jun 14, 2009 4:07 am
Well, let me explain. The illustration is made with InkScape, and I love it, on a laptop with Ubuntu 9.04. I have two more computer, one with Ubuntu Studio 9.04 and one with Win Vista. And I love Open Source, and I love my proprietary 3D Studio Max on my Win computer.This illustration is not "against" Open Source.
In the Open Source collective there are people who believe in "pure" Open Source, no MP3, VMA, DivX, DOC and so on. If we take Open Office for example, It's a great program and I use it on all my computers. One great thing about it is that I can open and save word and excel document. I can communicate with other programs (Proprietary software). I can work with customer who use Microsoft Office with a free program, it's great. Open Office is big "because it's open" to other proprietary programs.
If we take music. I have used Rhythmbox earlier fore my music on a Ubuntu computer. After I upgrade to Ubuntu 9.04 the Rhythmbox player refused to play my VMA files (with the ugly pack). Music is not file format, It's my history, my life. Wy should people be interested to move over from Windows to Ubuntu if there are forced to convert there "life" to "pure open source format". The program Songbird plays "all" format on Windows, on GNU/Linux it is not. On GNU/Linux Songbird is more closed than open for the "user".
The people in the camp are the people who really really hate proprietary software and Microsoft, and there file formats. The people who thinks that MP3,VMA, Wine, DOC is pure evil.
The "pure open source " people should get there one GNU/Linux releases. "Closed" Open Source work against them self, and us.
/Tommy Hjalmarsson