I have no problem with commercial software or paying for shareware. Companies like SuSE, RedHat, Mandrakesoft, Corel provide an added value to the Linux package. So, I generally purchase a copy every few releases. There are also some commercial products that I have no problem paying for. Partition Magic is one of those. I did buy Norton Utilities and Norton Anti-virus for the Windows systems used by wife and daughter, but the price was very reasonable. I personally think that the price for Microsoft Office is exorbitant. I personally use Linux for 100% of my computing at home. Unfortunately I am obliged to use NT at work for email although I have a Tru64 system on my desk (it's on a private net though), and several different Linux systems running in our lab (http://testdrive.compaq.com/). Samy Elashmawy wrote:
With commercial software , the only way is to vote with your dollars. If you have enough peaple willing to hold them back , changes can be made to happen. With all the new software coming out , its easier. Just wait for some of the more popular devolopment tools to move over to linux , then the playing field will get interesting. ie borland products under corel (delhi ect...)
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Gerald Feldman