Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: >That's already abusing it. The Mandriva DVD afaik is definitely _NOT_ >free being a for-sale distro. > >-- >Paolo Alexis Falcone >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Right, it is not free, but still open-source. All I am paying for is for the packaging and some.
Paying a tariff that is more than half the cost of the DVD themselves isn't fair. I am not saying that I should not pay tariff, but at least it should be fair market value. I believe that buying DVD/CDs from open-source organizations/companies is one way of supporting open-source development. I could have downloaded it, but supporting one of the distros that I like by buying from them makes sense to me. I do not believe that it is abusing it. I applaud the idea behind the letter. But I believe that it is only scratching the surface of the problem. And as an organization, I believe PLUG can make a significant difference. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
