A company wants to make money from software users.
Free software originated in education, thus wants to make
developers of software users. Sometimes the two goals are not
incompatable.
SuSE gets significant mileage among Free Software users for its
GPL'd contributions to the kernel and such, enough that they get to dodge
the occasional brickbat users toss at them because of Yast2.
Some ideas are inaccessable to Free software because of licensing
issues, but can be used to set up Free software because proprietary issues
are dealt with by, for instance, SuSE.
Eventually, either the source code is re-implemented in Free
software or the idea will die under the slings and arrows of management
and business turmoil.
The war against monopoly is a side effect. We're just trying to
learn about our computers.
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Dexter Graphic wrote:
> I thought the war was against Microsoft (or against
> proprietary software in general or even against the
> selfish hoarding of the ideas expressed in computer
> code)? If the distros can't work together to defeat
> this enemy then I fear the revolution will be lost.
>
> Dex
>
> On Tuesday, November 19, 2002 21:40, Mike O wrote:
> > If they all shared then none of them could claim they
> > were better than the other or had slicker features.
> > That's half the fun of distro wars.
> >
> > --- Dexter Graphic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Between Red Hat, Mandrake, SUSE, Debian, and all
> > > the rest, you'd figure that they could get the
> > > hardware detection and GUI interface (X install) to
> > > "just work" right out of the box using a universal
> > > hardware database.
> > >
> > > Isn't the whole point behind open source that if
> > > one person figures out how to make it work then we
> > > all benefit? Why aren't these guys sharing?
>
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