Kevin, I've been following the list, but have been really disapponted for many aspects.
>I have not been paying attention to the list for a few months,,,, is Idaya >going to closed source or comercial product offering now ? > >why is there no more ftp of the current versions ? Obviously idaya is trying to make money on freevsd, but I think that now they're crossing the lines of the GNU license. They MUST release the source of freevsd because it's a project based on a modification of another GNU project. But they make it hard enough to get the source so you have to buy their CD which is priced way beyond its real value. For the same money you get MUCH more stuff from ANY other distribution, AND you're allowed to download the ISO images anyway. The bandwidth excuse is just so: an excuse, as you can buy unlimited bandwidth for few bucks in the US. The same goes for the so called vsd clients. The pricing is ridiculous. With that money I can hire any programmer I want to write the apps, or just sit down and write my own in my spare time. So no, I will never pay the licensing for the clients, and might decide to release some open source versions real soon. So yes. I'm going down on this really hard. Sorry, but this is the second open source project I relied on which is going rotten. It's such a pitty when people take other peoples work, retouch it and then try to sell it at a high price. I believe in online collaboration and always give back as much as I can to the community (the sendmail 8.11.x mods for freevsd are mine as is the first apache+frontpage hack, to name a couple). Regards, Dave C. ------------------------- The freeVSD Support List -------------------------- Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=subscribe%20freevsd-support Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=unsubscribe%20freevsd-support Archives: http://freevsd.org/support/mail-archives/freevsd-support -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
