I have only been on this list for about a month, and just resently installed and set up freeVSD on a server of mine. I greatly like the product, however what they are doing now is VERY wrong. I totally agree with Dave, and I will stand against them!
Don. -----Original Message----- From: Dave Cost [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 6:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: RH 7.2 pkgs & protftpd Paul, >Dave, I do not work for Idaya; however, why not check it out of CVS--or even >better--enable Idaya to stay in business by having *decency* to buy the CD. I will buy CD when Idaya pays for my time spent on FreeVSD. I think that you're missing the point. FreeVSD is GPL. It's up to each user of FreeVSD to decide how to support the community. It's not Idaya who developed FreeVSD (the source for virtuald for example has been around much before Idaya was founded for example. I personally had a freevsd-like project which was dropped because freevsd had a better community). WE, the COMMUNITY developed it. Idaya had a big part of this, but they never declined help or patches from US. Now imagine if redhat pulled out the plug, and started selling RedHat Linux only on CD. Imagine if Linus Torvalds decided that Linux is it's own and that if you wanted it, then you would have to buy it. How would the rest of the people who spent money and time and efforts on these project feel? A GNU project is owned by everybody, and everybody should contribute. You mention CVS. Yes, I have the CVS source. But how long you think this source will be there? Do you expect idaya to release 1.4.11 there? If they do, it will be only because of the efforts of ppl like me who will take them in front of the FSF if necessary. To my eyes idaya is making business out of mine and others efforts *for free*. Have you seen the pricing structure of ProVSD? In not, do it, and you'll understand why I think we should stop them. Dave. ------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
