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RICHARD: No, {I don't see} this makes no sense to me at all. I see no conflict between the philosophy of free software and portability. And in the free software world we've worked very hard to achieve portability from all sides. We make our software very portable and we make our software standardized so that other people can easily have portability, so we are aiding portability from every possible direction. Meanwhile, you see Microsoft deliberately introducing incompatibilities and deliberately blocking interoperability. Microsoft can do that because it has power. We can't do that. If we make a program incompatible and the users don't like it, they can change it. They can change it to be compatible. So we are not in a position where we could impose incompatibility on anybody, because we have chosen not to try to have power over other people.