Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
>
> I am still a bit confused with the whole point of this discussion. We all
> want serious business to be done with Linux. Is it only that organisations
> are only expected to USE Linux and rather not make any money out of it?
>
> It is ok, if consultants charge money for linux advice, companies charge
> money for letting others access their Web/Mail/ servers running Linux etc.
> if ISP's make money selling their service based on Linux. Aren't this all
> commercial services based on Linux?
>
> By that logic isn't distribution/redistribution again a service? So what if
> packaging is done to distribute it better.
>
> What about companies like IBM, SGI which sell 'total Linux' systems and
> make money based on it?
> Or is it something else? Is it that people don't want such companies(like
> RedHat) to grow too rich, or maybe too influential to change the direction
> of the Linux movement.
>
> Sometimes I suspect that half the anger against even M$ is because it has
> been too successful(atleast in the get rich part...see? even I keep falling
> in the trap ;)
>
> If we seriously want Linux to catch on... we should at the very least don't
> mind people doing good business with/for/along it.
>
> Or am I seriously, sickenly wrong somewhere??????????
>
here here sandy!!!
i 2ltally agree w/t u!!
xcept for the M$ part!!! i hate it bcos it SUX!! and thats it!!!
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