On Thursday 05 December 2002 03:10 am, you wrote: > hello miark > thanks alot for your mail .. > all these apps which you say are monetary .. > Linux is open source and GPL (copy left) why > some app in this platform is monetary ? > bye
You are wrong. All those apps AREN'T monetary. You can install Wine for free, and you can install WineX for free. IF you know how. The others? Well, don't buy them if you don't want to pay for them... Seems like a logical thing to me. You are asking to do things that you would otherwise be REQUIRED to pay for... You want to do what Windows does, but FREE OF CHARGE. Last time I looked, Windows XP Pro cost $449CAD, and that's a big chunk of change for a shit OS that crashes all the time and distributes my data to Microsoft and God knows who else... Hey, you know that BioWare is putting out Neverwinter Nights with the Windows, Mac, and Linux versions in the same box? Should they give it away for free because it runs on Linux? NO. The attitude that EVERYTHING HAS TO BE FREE is going to be the downfall of Linux... If it were possible. Also, take StarOffice, for example. People had the OPTION of paying for it. Did they? No. But would a business touch it? NO. So...... What do they do? They put a mandatory charge on it, and now it is what, the number one seller at Amazon???? Amazing, isn't it? Just because something costs money, doesn't mean that it isn't worth the money... Think about it... Linux software is usually cheaper than Windows software (Mandrake is $60 here... Compare that to $299 for WinXP Homo Edition...). StarOffice is 20% the price of Microsoft's Office... So there..... That's my rambling opinion... Good luck running shitty apps in Linux. When all else fails, maybe you should just use Windows.
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