devosc wrote:
as opposed to finding/installing newer versions of SuSE at no cost.... admittedly each instance of $x dollars might be trivial but over the years == $MS.... If your primary reason for using free software is simply to forego the cost of paying for a license, please stop using it.
I just hope that a portion of the money spent actually does get back to the developers of these applications, eg. KDE, Gnome etc... I suspect that is a very mixed bag. Some developers get paid by other means, some don't get paid anything. Some get paid big bucks. Few opensource developers are in it primarily for the money.
I'm not sure I understand your point here, you ask me not to use Free Software, but at the same time Corporations can make profit from distributing free software.
There are aspects of this that I dont want to begin to understand... But I do find that statement above a little off ---- as said my reasoning for repeatedly paying for the SuSE distribution was in the hope that it benefits those that develop the software.... and b/c Novell are comendering this distribution it would be nice to reasons why its worth doing so... there is a middle ground... and I'm sure there is a wealth of applications that going into to that I've never even heard of nor used etc...
btw, my first paragraph omitted the word, 'without', i.e. 'not without'...
I think he's saying, you get benifit from Linux, please support it. When you, for example, buy SUSE, you're helping to keep the distro viable. You're certainly allowed to download for free, but why not help out a bit, if you can? Also, companies such as SUSE, don't just sell what you can download for free. They provide some support, put together a nice distro etc. All that costs money. Where should that money come from?