Oren Dear,
The next time that you use your IDE drive, USB devices, Blue tooth device (in
the near future), your motherboard chipset, X windows, KDE or GNOME- think
WHO IS SPONSORING THIS WORK?
Those who package it add lots of values besides collections. What about
writing docs for the distribution? what about support costs? and the most
IMPORTANT one - what about SPONSORING open source drivers and features to be
written? yes, part of them are written by volunteers, but without financial
backing for major projects (like USB for programmers who just do the Linux
USB development) - does those project will envolve fast?
So no, they're not just collecting and collecting money, they give support
for the product, they sponsor products, and they innovate. They're not alone,
but they do pay programmers to work on projects full time!
THINK BEFORE YOU EMAIL!
Hetz
On Saturday 24 February 2001 01:55, Oren Held wrote:
> Hello Hetz
>
> The wrong thing is that they are getting money for programs that
> volunteers did _FOR FREE_, on their own time. instead of giving the money
> for the volunteers I'm giving it to the company who packed this and made
> some nice setup program ? no thanks. they should release the d/l version
> while selling it, imo.
>
> That's why I prefer to use a non-commercial distro (debian).
>
> Cya,
> Oren.
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