joe wrote:

On Fri, 02 Feb 2001, you wrote:

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Typical closeminded linux-user view, really. "If it's not free, I don't want it." *THAT* really annoys me.

(still, that was your two cents, and this is mine). :)

Sad part is some will use Microsoft based products to do many of the things they want to do. They help support the Microsoft development community financially while complaining about it, but refuse to support linux developers financially. People can't live on love alone, and that includes developers that love linux.

I don't think anyone should buy an inferior product, but if the product is good and you use it, be willing to help support the people that created it.

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Typical closeminded linux-user view, really. "If it's not free, I don't want it." *THAT* really annoys me.

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On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 02:09:36PM -0500, joe wrote:

I wonder how many of these "must be free" are using solely linux for

In the Linux/GNU context "free" does not mean without cost (for the 'nth time !). I buy SuSE linux, since they do not allow their CD's to be copied and sold. I use SuSE because it is reasonably complete and it's setup is more or less sane. I don't buy it for it's so-called 60/90 day support, since for all practical purposes that is worthless in my experience. Until 7.0 I regarded it's price as reasonable, considering that it came with a fairly good book. With 7.0 marketing bullshit has taken over with this professional/personal differentiation. I will probably not buy anymore distributions now that SuSE is playing Microsoft games with the software distributions. If my needs outstrip 7.0 then I will probably begin to use Debian. I paid someone to burn CD's for me for Slackware, Debian and Redhat. I once made a mistake of buying a Redhat distribution - it was a waste of money. I also paid the same person to supply some Free/Open/Net BSD disks. So I do spend money... Cliff p.s With regard to your wondering: I work and socialise with Solaris, HPUX, Linux, FreebSD, AIX. The last time I used Windows was a few weeks ago on a neighbour;s computer, her version of '98 had just decided not to run Word 97 anymore, so I re-installed MS Office for her.