Karen Hill wrote: > Linus is now doing the ol' switchero. It is all over the news, if you > want to use his trademark, Linux, you must pay 5,000 dollars! Letters > have been sent to 90 companies in Australia already demanding the 5 > grand. Just like all the others have warned, Linux was only free until > it got enough suckers to use it. Hopefully, now the Linux advocates > can see that they were bamboozeled by a classic business move, of > giving away a product for free (linux), until it got good enough to > compete with the other players. Once enough people are on the product > and can't easily switch, JACK UP THE PRICES, ala RHT. > > First Redhat decided to cash in and now Linus Torvalds. The free > software movement is a scam. It was from the beginning when Stallman > was charging for the media during the time when the internet was not so > popular. > > http://theinquirer.net/?article=25529
How about reading what Linus actually wrote instead of your slanted perspective? http://slashdot.org/articles/00/01/19/0828245.shtml You claim that you are a credible poster (but obviously not objective)... prove it. _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
