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Originally Posted by fordfan753  I think the decision as to whether or not their FLOSS code gets ported to a proprietary environment should be made entirely by the author(s) of said code. |
Except that doesn't work under the GPL and similar licenses. Someone else can make the port instead, leaving the author high and dry.
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How are people going to know how great Linux, etc is without being treated to some OSS code every now and then?
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They've got Firefox and OO.org. If you give them all the free apps on a non-free system, the non-free system will retain its dominance in the market. The only way to get real freedom to the masses in operating systems is by hurting Microsoft. Porting F/OSS code to Windows hurts the Free Software movement.
Porting it to the Mac, however, could be useful in hurting Microsoft's dominance, but care must be taken to ensure that it doesn't simply replace Microsoft with Apple.