On Tuesday 08 June 2004 05.50, Don wrote:
Well...let me that this one step further...
As I remember...linux was SUPPOSED to be this big, open source, FREE o/s and supporting tools/utils, FREE to the community, some kind of a FREE throwback to the commune and hippy days....this big community movement to provide a solid FREE environment that was supposed to be more robust that the virus ridden blue screen of death crap we get from someone else.
Your trouble is that your first language is English. You have a prejudiced opinion of the meaning of the word 'free'. It's not 'free' as in 'Buy one, get one free', it's 'free' as in 'Live free or die'. It has nothing to do with cost.
Well....has anyone tried to download a power-PC version of suse?
If you buy one, the license allows you to put it up for gratis download. suse is under no obligation to give it away, they just can't prevent their customers from doing it. If it's that important to you, buy it and give it away.
Is anyone watching what's going on in the red hat arena?
Guess what folks, this stuff is beginning to cost, and cost alot, almost as much as Windoze$. And, I don't see it getting any cheaper.
It would appear that the gratis days are going to be short lived (both power and intel based, etc) and in short order I fear we're going to have to breakout the platinum cards for o/s upgrades...
What happened to the grand idea that everyone was telling me about?
Those people were wrong from the outset. When Stallman wrote emacs, you could get it from him, but it would cost you money. Even back then it was never about no-cost software, it was about freedom