On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 10:56, sda wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 08:19:15PM +1100, 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). > > Caldera is unpopular by whom? Maybe people like you, but the business > community that *pays* for software and support seem, to like it very > much. At least Caldera has a viable business model while Mandrake - well > let's just say Mandrake is struggling.
I find it extemely interesting that you home in on one particular part of Sridhar's statement above, (Caldera's popularity) but fail to address the rest of what he's said, which is totally valid. For that matter, you've skipped alot; which to me smacks of troll. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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