primm wrote:
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>> Ok Lynn, You've managed to hit my hot button. This is exactly what is
>> wrong, and I mean what is REALLY WRONG with *US* now days.
>>
>> What a world Microsoft has created! It makes honest people *think*
>> they are thieves!!!!
>>
>> Lynn, STOP feeling guilty about USING Linux and certainly stop feeling
>> guilty about asking for help, whether or not you eventually make a
>> profit from the information is irrelevant.
>>
>
> I take your point about microsoft and the way they made me feel when I
> stopped
> paying for their support and using their products. They send reminders.
>
> What is not clear for me and microsoft users in general is the issue of me
> using opensuse as against the Novell equivalent in a commercial environment.
> Your post encourages me in that I have the freedom to use opensuse as and how
> I wish. Commercially, as a hobby or just for playing games. is that what you
> are really saying?
>
>
Yes, what I am really saying is that you are free to use Linux in pretty
much any way you want to use it. There is a license (the GPL) which
tells you what the limitations are (dammed near none), you basically
can't sell it, but you can use it or give it away. If you want to play
games, fine, if you want to use it in a hobby, fine, if you want to run
a business, fine, if you want to do company books, fine, if you want to
do commercial research and sell the information you collect, fine.
Just don't sell LINUX itself. If you want to sell information ABOUT
Linux, that is also fine, but it would be nice if you would share it
with others first :) Write a book and sell that, fine...even if the
book is about Linux. Even if the book is about SuSE Linux. Even if
the book is about all of the information you have learned from people
here on this forum, that you can do and we all will hope you make a big
profit. Cast off your Microsoft mentality, it is no longer of any
value except as an example of what not to do and how not to live your
computer life.
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