<html><head></head><body>"Please let us add *insert proprietary here* because its *convenient/affordable/any other reason other than good for the user*" <br>
There's making deals that are win win and theres digging a hole that you then get stuck in yourself. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 April 2017 23:02:17 GMT+03:00, Christopher Havel <laserhawk64@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="auto">Allan, please help me remember never to try to make a deal with you.<div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">Compromise is the art of two or more parties entering into a partnership where they each get some of what they want. You scratch my back and I will scratch yours.</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">The journey to completely open software is one of those journeys of the proverbial thousand steps. Each step can be - and, in some sense, *must* be - both a compromise and a step forward. Only with enough of both will you get what you ultimately want.</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">If you refuse to compromise with someone, you are essentially proposing that you get all of what you want and that they get nothing. The result will be a lose-lose, because they will walk away and make a better deal with someone else - and you will get nothing, because you won't deal.</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">Yes, I'm oversimplifying a little - but the point remains and is valid.</div></div>
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