On Sunday 30 September 2007 01:54, Richard Creighton wrote:
primm wrote:
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Ok Lynn, You've managed to hit my hot button. This is exactly what is wrong, and I mean what is REALLY WRONG with *US* now days.
What a world Microsoft has created! It makes honest people *think* they are thieves!!!!
Lynn, STOP feeling guilty about USING Linux and certainly stop feeling guilty about asking for help, whether or not you eventually make a profit from the information is irrelevant.
I take your point about microsoft and the way they made me feel when I stopped paying for their support and using their products. They send reminders.
What is not clear for me and microsoft users in general is the issue of me using opensuse as against the Novell equivalent in a commercial environment. Your post encourages me in that I have the freedom to use opensuse as and how I wish. Commercially, as a hobby or just for playing games. is that what you are really saying?
Yes, what I am really saying is that you are free to use Linux in pretty much any way you want to use it. There is a license (the GPL) which tells you what the limitations are (dammed near none), you basically can't sell it, but you can use it or give it away. If you want to play games, fine, if you want to use it in a hobby, fine, if you want to run a business, fine, if you want to do company books, fine, if you want to do commercial research and sell the information you collect, fine. Just don't sell LINUX itself. If you want to sell information ABOUT Linux, that is also fine, but it would be nice if you would share it with others first :) Write a book and sell that, fine...even if the book is about Linux. Even if the book is about SuSE Linux. Even if the book is about all of the information you have learned from people here on this forum, that you can do and we all will hope you make a big profit. Cast off your Microsoft mentality, it is no longer of any value except as an example of what not to do and how not to live your computer life.
Hi Richard, Hi everyone. That's great news. In fact few people have the time nor inclination to read the GPL. I started but went out for lunch instead. It needs shortening in the way you have explained it to make it understood by the idiots such as me. 10 lines of text as opposed to a thousand. Then (almost ex) microsoft users like me may take notice. Anyway, could I use my feminine charm, invite you back for coffee and ask you guru guys where /srv/www/htdocs is on xp? I honestly dare not start it as a new thread. Theo would throw me off the list! Love from Lynn x x x -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org