On Wednesday 06 April 2005 12:01 am, Fergus Wilde wrote:
OK great! How about 10 people tossing into a pot 10 dollars and each making a copy from one purchase?
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Not illegal, but a bit cheap if you come from a hard currency country and have a job, I'd say. Red Hat's recent good financial results are said in the press to be a result of their subscription-based updates, so they have steady revenue. I'd like to see Novell continue to put SuSE out with free updates and one-off purchases. I also don't want to see the consumer / home product hived off like Fedora.
I agree completely. If you want a distro then throw some money their way every once in a while. Its a full time job putting these things together, not something hacked by some week-end programmer. They have kids to feed and bills to pay. If you don't support your distro, then you should run Linux From Scratch for a while and see how well THAT works. Within sight of where I sit I see three boxed sets of SuSE and older versions are long since tossed. Its SO cheap compared to windows (any flavor). -- _____________________________________ John Andersen