Call me clueless but surely it is all this talk of 'free software' and 'you may
sell it but you must release the source code' that is putting many companies
off Linux !!!
Take dear old Corel. It's nearly bankrupt, so what does the Linux community
ask it to do. Complete the job by giving it's products away for free !!! M$ must
be laughing all the way to the bank ! If they can't beat Linux, they'll just
wait until all Linux app. companies are bust, and all Linux developers too poor
to eat ! In an ideal world maybe everything would be free, so the companies
would not have to pay their employees. Until then it is surely a bit unfair for
the Linux community to say 'Stuff how long you've been battling to build up
your company, we want to make you bankrupt by making you give all your
software, which cost millions to produce in developer wages alone, away for
free' ! I don't mind paying for software, never have. (It would be nice to to
live in a world where I could get my money back if it's crap however !) I work
for a software company, and I would be really pissed off if one day they came
along and said 'you're fired, we can't afford to pay you any more 'cos we're
giving all our software away for free now'. I don't want to stack tins down at
the local super market and write software in the couple of hours free time I
would get ! While I can get paid for software development I'd much rather do it
all day !! And much as I would like to spend all day writing Linux stuff
/ tinkering with my Linux box I don't relish the thought of living on social
security ! I realise that the majority of Linux development is done as an 'in
free time' exercise, but I presume that the developers may be doing something
they like to do from '9 'till 5'. I bet a lot of them work in software !!
Please tell me I'm wrong and I've got it all upside down.
Owen
On Sat, 06 May 2000, you wrote:
> Guillaume Cottenceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > "Furoran Rushuru" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Can NVIDIA's binary only drivers be included in cooker / 7.1? Or at least in
> > > contrib?
> > >
> > > The licence on nvidia's site - http://www.nvidia.com/drivers/xfree86_40.html
> > > - seems to be very restrictive
> > >
> > > However I guess that many people would like to have 3D support with their
> > > TnT/Geforce working right out of the box. Newbies for example may have
> > > troubles installing it, since the binary files on nvidia's site only work
> > > with Redhat's 6.1 2.2.12-20 kernel
> >
> > For the moment, MandrakeSoft does not include binary drivers. And include
> > of non-free software is very restricted [netscape and xv for the moment].
> >
> > It may change, but we believe it's a very good policy for Linux'
> > distribution makers.
>
> I'd just would add that company making binary only driver aren't following
> the linux philosophy...
>
> Which lead to -> do not buy anything from theses company.
>
> --
> -- Yoann http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~yoann/
> It is well known that M$ product don't make a free() after a malloc(),
> the unix community wish them good luck for their future developement.
