Not all linux software is free, nor should it be. We live in a capitalist society and the almighty dollar is what makes the world go round. I have seen lindows and I prefer Mandrake. I initially downloaded 9.0 but went out and bought the boxed set. I did so because Mandrake needs money to survive. You can't expect any company that wants to survive to provide everything for free, to do so is suicide. People who think it all should be free are just leeches on the software companies, they just want to take and not give back. It is sort of like welfare. Flame away, I can take it! LOL
Walt -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Robin Turner Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 6:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Lindows What??! You have to pay a subscription fee to use Free Software? This is an insult to the people who wrote the stuff. \begin{rant} 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? \end{rant} -- "Do unto others what you would like others to do unto you. And have fun doing it." - Linus Torvalds Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent University Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
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