On Friday 12 October 2001 3:58 pm, THOMAS ADAM wrote:
Hello, everyone.
I have noticed a disturbing trend in recent weeks of
people begging for free
copies of our favourite distro. Is this beginning to
wear a little thin for
No...not really. The professional version of SuSE 7.3 was released at £50.....by the time that goes down to a reasonable price to buy...the next version is more or less ready to be released.
And as SuSE/Linux is GNU/GPL anyway...I say COPY COPY COPY away...
I have to agree with Bruce here, your approach "COPY COPY COPY" is not in keeping with the GNU ethos; RMS used to sell his GNU Emacs for $150 a tape back in the early days (1985). How do you think he made a living? I doubt that I'd be here writing this if everyone thought that $150 was an unreasonable price to pay for quality software back then; no Emacs, no GCC, no Linux... Open Source is community. That means everyone contributes. Even though I may not be able to contribute in the way some do (Don Sanders, Waldo Bastian et al, for example who author KMail) I can exchange £50 for a boxed distribution every so often (not necessarily every version) and help others getting started. And if you can't afford a boxed set of the current version there's always an older version available, the SuSE FTP site, and Linux ISO! TAKE TAKE TAKE is not the answer. BTW, I've got SuSE 6.1 and 6.4 to giveaway. M -- Martin Webster <mwebster@ntlworld.com> Registered Linux User #230322 http://homepage.ntlworld.com/spider-monkey/