I think in a capitalist system, all these leeches are in fact contributing something, they're filling the user-friendliness niche, i.e. they've turned Linux from a geek hobby into a system useable by the techophobe public. Competition enforces the best will prevail. This frees up the developers to concentrate on developing. The first post included :- >Xandros was able to recognise all other ditributions on my hard discs >and give them a place on the boot selection screen. So that's what they're charging for, some added value. Before these leeches came around you'ld get messages like "ookelfoo could not load flugelbar.so, invalid vorplethreep" and your box would freeze up. cheers Rod On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 13:18 +1000, QuantumG wrote: > Dean Hamstead wrote: > > > > > sorry, i just didnt like the tone of the email. im 100% debian and > > bsd > > > Wow, I'm being chastised for things I *didn't* say now. Cool. > > Yes, as I understand it Xandros doesn't not participate in the open > source community. They just leech what they can get, add "value" and > try to sell it. No, there's no *requirement* that they participate in > the community. I just wanted to know if I had this right. It's really > hard to tell if Xandros "gives anything back" and I was wondering if > anyone knew if they do. > > Obviously when choosing to pay for a linux distribution I'd like to know > things like this so I can factor it into my decision making process. If > there is a choice between two equally good, equally priced linux > distributions and I know that one of them actually contributes something > to the community and the other is just a leech I'd probably go with the > one that contributes something to the community. But that wasn't the > point of my inquiry, I just wanted to know if I had my facts straight or > not. > > Trent -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Brought to you by a penguin, a gnu and a camel
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