EXACTLY ME MIND ! Thanks a lot Sridhar Karine
On Monday 18 March 2002 10:19, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > You seem to be applying closed-source pricing policies to something that is > free (as in speech). Why would one pay $100 for a Mandrake server when the > source is free? Someone can compile this source code and bingo: free (as in > speech and in beer) Mandrake, which can be legally distributed to millions > of people. Otherwise, they could just download Debian or Red Hat. Sure, > Mandrake could make proprietary aplications like Suse does (and note that > Suse is in financial difficulty while Red Hat isn't), but that would > destroy Mandrakesoft's reputation in the GNU/Linux community. Mandrakesoft > is a free software company through to the core. In this way it is almost > like Debian, and it is the principal reason why myself and many others like > the company. Estranging the developer community would just create a > slow-developing and unpopular distro like Caldera OpenLinux (which used to > be amongst the most popular). > > I like Mandrake. I respect Mandrakesoft. But if they move to a restrictive > pricing policy like that of Suse or Caldera, I will switch to a free (as in > speech) distro like Debian or Gentoo. > -- Karine ZUERCHER [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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