The whole point of the existance of multiple GNU/Linux distros is to offer the user choice over what they want. Each distro has its own philosophy, and is made to suit the needs of a particular audience. There _are_ distros that bundle a lot of closed source tools alongside open source ones -- Mandrake Linux just isn't one of them. I personally prefer Mandrake this way, because I have great respect for the free software community. If I wasn't using Mandrake, I would probably be using Debian.
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 09:17:26 +0900, Doug Lerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do people think about free vs commercial software in general? I > myself don't object to commercial software. In fact, I work for a company > that makes very high-quality commercial software with a great, loyal > customer base. > > Surely there is nothing wrong with paying to have software supported and > updated? > > doug > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wednesday, December 26, 2001): > > >MAndrakesoft is committed to free software. All the Mandrake Tools are > >licensed under the GNU GEneral Public License and source is available. > > Find another major distro that does that! -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "Hey, that is an implementation issue, not a design issue, so that's the point where I don't care all that much any more. I'd not be all that likely to use this feature (I still do "zcat < file.tar.gz | tar xvf -" instead of using "tar zxvf file.tar.gz", because I'm an old-fashioned old fogey. I don't need my tar-files auto-mounted for me)." -- Linus Torvalds
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