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   From: ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand   
      
   In message , JEDIDIAH wrote:   
      
   > If you have to depend on the app developer to do the right thing then your   
   > platform is already a failure.   
      
   Only for proprietary software—look at the mess that is Windows.   
      
   With Free Software, however, you can rely on the community to exert peer   
   pressure on delinquent developers to clean up their act. Because if they   
   don’t do it, it will be cleaned up for them.   
      
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