jmarcom wrote:
What??! You have to pay a subscription fee to use Free Software? This is an insult to the people who wrote the stuff.Wal-Mart was required to sell the system as "LindowsOS" to get around M$ complaints. It provides a basic Linux distro (don't recall what it is named) which will run a few popular Window$ apps. It wouldn't be a bad way to introduce the general public to Linux, except there is some sort of annual subscription service required to use the system.
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On a related point, one of the many things I hate about proprietary software is that it makes people pay to use non-proprietary software. For example, someone pays to use Windows, because they want to get onto the Internet. They are thus paying money to get the benefit of a lot of software that is free in terms of both speech and beer, apache and sendmail being obvious examples. Do the people who wrote this software get royalties from Microsoft?
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