On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 08:23:06 -0700, linux-sux wrote: > > 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. > > > that's cause linus is a greedy lintard. (snip)
Come back when you've learned NOT to be an asshole. -- Rick _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
