Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Some distros put proprietary software on their boxed CD's, by contract > with software producers. This software is not available on the ISO > images you can download, only in the boxed sets you buy.
This is a good reason to BUY the distro instead of downloading it, or buying a cheap copy from someone who did download it. > RedHat have been doing this since times immemorial (i.e. for a > significant fraction of Linux era). If I rememebr correctly their extras are aimed twoard the developer market (i.e. database "language" compilers, etc), not the average "computer geek". The first person to do this was Adam Osborne who sold his "Osborne 1" computer for less than the cost of the included software, though I suspect this was before most of the people on this list were born. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson Bloomberg L.P., BFM (Israel) 2 hours ahead of London, 7 hours ahead of New York. Tel: 972-(0)3-754-1158 Fax 972-(0)3-754-1236 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
