On Tuesday 23 April 2002 21:01 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Wednesday 24 April 2002 05:54, rob wrote:
I bought my copy of 7.3 Professional.
Cool. I wasn't talking about you in particular. I was referring to all those people that litter the net with the "gimme gimme gimme" mentality.
Remember, it was the "freeloaders" and "parasites" that built the base which upon these Linux companies went public.
No it wasn't. Those people paid with their time and effort. The people I'm talking about has never done a thing except waste people's time screaming about the GPL. Remember, the GPL doesn't force SuSE (or anyone else) to even have an ftp server at all. The distributions are completely free under the GPL to sell their cds and only provide source and binaries to the people who pay for it.
Anders
Well said, Anders. I would just like to add to this little thread that the SuSE distro is amazingly inexpensive. I started adding up the cost of non-GPL software that is equivalent (nothing is equivalent to Linux, it's definitely in a class by itself) to what SuSE has on those seven cd's, and I was stunned. Actually, I stopped adding after I reached USD 8,000. Download via ftp if you want to, but for eighty bucks, you can't beat having those cd's handy. Kevin