Kam Leo <kam.leo <at> gmail.com> writes:
First, do not confuse "Free" with "Open". They
are not the same.
Indeed, they're not. "Free Software" is the correct term:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
And Free Software it's about freedom, not price.
Let's not stretch advocacy to ridiculous levels. Open source has
limits. It's nice to have the source code. However, the source code
does no good if you have the neither the resources and/or the skills
to do something with it.
How hard is it to run "make"? Often just recompiling is enough to make the
software work on a current distribution. And if it does not build, fixing it is
often not rocket science either.
Kevin Kofler