Hi Anton, i totally agree with you, a very poor program on informing people of Linux, it would have done more harm than good. People who don't know of Linux now think it cost $120/$240 or more, and a lot people who though that Linux was free now think that also.
Who is the "Paul" guy, i also missed his full name ?. I also missed the first 8/10 minutes. And paragraphs are definitely good things. antonovich wrote: > > Hi Simon, > I just listened to your open source article. While it was generally good > (and positive, hurrah!), there were a few errors and omissions. .... > the piece by "Paul" (I missed his full name, and the online version > isn't available until Wednesday...), was verging on deliberate > misinformation, > Not only that, however, > but it is free. When I say free, I mean that one assigns ftp sites as > download sites and everything can be downloaded from then on free, > The second, and far more important misconception is that "distributions > like RedHat" need to be purchased, and should be purchased for $100, $200 > or whatever. In fact, you need never pay anything for it, and legally. In > fact, even RedHat can be freely downloaded from their website! No, $200, > not even $1 - free. > He also very stupidly said that if you want to be able to reinstall and > have a play then you need to buy CDs. This is plain wrong. > You also did not mention (I missed the first 3 minutes, so maybe you did) > the Linux Users Groups, > Thanks > Anton Trevor
