Excuse me to show my head in this discussion, I will bury it again soon.
Richard Zidlicky makes some magical things to make me read } > } > Ah, but when you buy it from somebody, are you entitled to } > bugfixes? } } no. You may buy support contracts (or register or whatever they } call it) and than you have a better chance your favourite bugs } get fixed. Chance, not warranty... } However everyone can download the complete sources, } binaries, upgrades and bugfixes completely for free, or lacking } an unmetered network connection order any CD eg from cheapbytes } for prices around 5E. Stop looking at Linux, it was not done in a day. It's better with MS: No source, some bugfixes in service pack, but anyway, MS recommend you to upgrade (the hardware as well, because new OS requires more CPU for no visible additionnal service!). And you have to pay for upgrade! And some bugs are never corrected anyway. } you have misunderstood the question so here it is again. Under �5 I am } not even allowed to get reimbursement for the material and p&p when } distributing the source - is that right? This is only my personal feeling, not relevant to the discussion... Reimbursement, No, but you might request the media and the return postage. } I am sure you would have lot more developpers would SMSQ happened } to become open source a few years ago. I have read statements } of 2 of them. And if Apple had sued and won against MS Windows icons and mouse when all the stuff started, you would live in a different world. Changing the past is so easy, but ineffective. (And if England and France did not were in conflict by the revolution time, Canada would be a province of Quebec, USA would not exist as such but as a sub-territory of Spain, France and England, ... ). Now back to listen-only mode.
