Re: [OT] Re: realplay.el interface with Real Player v. 1879

[Richard Stallman]

    > Someone else pointed out that you can't be sure of that conclusion.
    > In that other world

    What other world?

The hypothetical world in which proprietary software does not exist
and therefore the company Oracle with its actual business model
does not exist either.

Someone else asserted that in this hypothetical world there would be
no data base equally good.  I and another explained how that
assumption is not valid.  In that hypothetical world, there might or
might not be an equally good free data base.

There is no need to go further down that tangent.

    > , users could have made other arrangements to develop a free data base
    > that is as good or better.  The lack of today's easy-way-out could
    > have motivated them to do so.

    They are not doing so with database software.  What you are saying is
    hypothetical.

It is about a hypothetical alternate world, so of course it is
hypothetical.